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BI-METALLISM 


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SOCIAL  EVOLUTION 


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TRI-MILLENIAL 
1900 


A  PHILOSOPHY  OF  THE    ROCK   OF   SILVER  AND  THE  ROCK  OF  GOLD 

WITH  THE  TRUTH   BETWEEN  THIS  BATTLE  OF  THE 

ELEMENTS  AND  HEMISPHERES  AS 

ELECTRICITY   (NITROGEN) 


BY  J.    WL.    MILNE 
WORTHINGTON,  O.,  U.  S.  A. 


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COLUMBUS,  O. 
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The  positive  Han  and  Nation  and  Hemisphere  versus  the  negative  ilan 
«nd  Nation  and  Hemisphere. 

Silver  flercury  or  Warmth  versus  its  counterpart,  Chlorine  of  Gold  or 
Cold. 

Speech  is  Silver,  and  talks  too  much,  versus  Silence  is  Gold,  and  talks 
too  little. 

The  Chemical  properties  of  the  warm  5un  and  Day  versus  its  opposite, 
the  properties  of  the  cold  floon  and  Night. 

The  liberal  Hydrogen,  which  radiates  and  gives  too  much,  versus  its  oppo- 
site, the  conservative  Oxygen,  which  absorbs  and  receives  too  much. 

The  Greek  Celtic,  or  prodigal  or  second  son,  versus  the  Roman  Saxon, 
Roman  Spaniard,  or  older  son. 

nilitancy  in  the  open,  on  land,  versus  its  opposite.  Navy  and  industrial 
rionopoly. 

Paul,  who  pioneers  and  plants  too  much,  versus  ApoIIos,  who  receives 
and  waters  too  much. 

The  Sharp  of  Life  versus  the  Flat  of  Life. 

The  King  of  Warmth  and  Love  versus  the  King  of  Cold  and  Law. 


Is  it  not  better  to  radiate  and  give  time  than  to 
remain  at  home  receiving  and  absorbing  others' 
time? 

No,  my  dear  brother,  the  mathematical  or 
reverse  process  is  the  basis  of  all  life.  To  posit  or 
radiate  abroad  and  give  time  in  pioneering  is  undig- 
nified. We  are  at  the  receiving  end  and  prefer  to 
remain  at  home  and  accumulate  others'  time. 

But  is  it  not  manly  to  be  open  and  above  board 
Apollos? 

No,  my  dear  Paul,  the  mathematical  and  reverse 
process  is  the  manly  part,  which,  being  interpreted, 


You  are  entirely  too  fast,  Paul,  and 
if  we  did  not  keep  you  down  would  wreck  and  inflate 
our  Nation  and  Continent  into  mercurial  ether. 
And  are  you  not  merely  our  mathematical  and  re- 
verse process,  entirely  too  slow,  Apollos,  and  if  we 
did  not  keep  you  from  sinking  would  drag  us  by  your 
density  down,  yes,  down  into  the  very  grave?  Gold 
and  its  chemical  properties  of  chlorine  and  negative 
affinities  of  bromine  and  iodine  are  the  night  and 
winter  of  life,  remember.  Your  cold  gold  conserva- 
tives are  in  the  saddle  on  two  Hemispheres  at  pres- 
ent and  your  negative  fleets  surround  the  islands  of 
Crete  and  Cuba,  helping  destroy,  by  starvation  and 
famines  and  your  pestilential  fumes  of  night,  the 
liberals  who  dared  to  state  and  to  assert  your  prom- 
ises are  never  kept. 

Yes,  but  my  dear  Paul,  you  are  too  impatient — 
you  do  not  give  us  time  to  keep  our  promises — 
disturbing  the  peace  of  Europe  and  doing  your 
best  to  manufacture  gunpowder  and  drag  us 
into  war  with  Spain,  to  violate  international  law. 
We  also  sympathize  with  Crete  and  Cuba  and  have 
voted  $50,000  to  the  Cuban  cause,  or  rather  to  assist 
our  Americans  in  Cuba. 

That  is  all  very  good  as  far  as  it  goes — you  have 
some  sympathy  for  Greece  and  Cuba,  that  is  true; 
you  are  possessed  of  some  hydrogen,  too,  remember, 
but  you  have  more  sympathy  with  the  Negative 
Turk  and  Spaniard  and  have  more  oxygen  than  hy- 
drogen. While  we,  as  your  counterpart,  would  have 
had  a  little  sympathy  for  the  Turk  and  Spain,  but 
would  have  openly  assisted  Greece  and  Cuba,  and 


our  fleets  would  have  been  at  the  Dardanelles  and  in 
Havana  instead  of  doing  patrol  duty  for  the  Sultan 
and  for  Spain.  So  that  you  must  observe,  Apollos, 
v^e  are  counterparts,  and  in  shutting  up  the  mercury 
of  life  in  Continents,  shutting  up  the  mercury  of  life 
in  Cities,  and  violating  Terrestrial  laws  you  are 
shutting  up  your  own  vitality  and  bringing  pesti- 
lence and  the  plague  and  the  famine  and  travail  to 
our  very  doors. 

There  now,  Paul,  be  calm  and  do  keep  still  about 
the  plague  and  pestilence.  It  might  disturb  and  in- 
terfere with  industry.  You  are  very  prone  to  show 
off,  Paul,  and  be  theatrical  and  act  the  demagogue 
under  the  guise  of  patriotism.  Too  ready  to  line  up 
with  the  liberal  and  jingo  side  of  life,  who  are  never 
satisfied  unless  when  creating  a  disturbance.  Greece 
creating  a  disturbance  in  Europe,  Ireland  disturbing 
the  peace  of  the  Empire,  Cuba  disturbing  the  peace 
of  the  American  Continent  and  England's  prodigal 
disturbing  the  peace  of  the  conservative  Boer. 

Yes,  Apollos,  that  may  be;  we  are  somewhat  dem- 
onstrative, but  you  are  our  reverse,  ever,  remember, 
too  cold-blooded  and  slow,  Apollos.  "Thou  hatest 
to  be  reformed''  and  are  thus  ever  responsible  for 
this  disturbance.  Too  slow  with  your  promised  re- 
forms in  Turkey,  too  slow  with  your  reforms  in 
Crete,  too  slow  with  your  reforms  in  Ireland,  too 
slow  with  your  reforms  in  Cuba,  too  slow  with 
your  reforms  in  Africa  and  too  slow  with  your 
financial  reforms  in  America.  Yes,  my  dear  Apol- 
los, we  may  radiate  under  the  guise  of  patriotism, 


but  you  are  merely  our  reverse  process  ever,  you 
absorb  under  the  guise  of  patriotism. 

But,  my  contrary  and  reverse  process,  you  are 
possessed  of  such  inflating  tendencies  you  are  never 
satisfied  unless  when  increase  and  advance  is  the 
order  and  only  truth  of  life. 

And  are  you  not  my  counterpart,  my  opposite, 
Mr.  Cold  Gold,  and  possessed  of  such  contracting, 
withering,  blighting  tendencies  that  you  were  never 
so  happy  and  jaunty  as  now,  when  contraction  and 
retreat  you  consider  the  order  and  Truth  of  this 
Universe?  Contraction  (at  our  expense,  of  course), 
too  dull  to  observe  your  own  City  vitality  and  Nega- 
tive affinities  must  also  suffer;  that  Truth  rests  be- 
tween and  cuts  with  a  two-edged  sword. 

But  you  are  possessed  of  such  visionary  ideas, 
Paul,  of  such  anarchistic  and  socialistic  tenden- 
cies—  tendencies  that  are  degrading  and  danger- 
ous, and  must  be  suppressed  by  the  better  elements 
of  the  land.  Your  social  fads  and  theories  are  very 
pretty,  but  there  is  nothing  sound  about  them ;  they 
do  not  work  in  business.  What  we  desire  now  is 
business,  not  sentiment  or  preaching. 

Then  how  comes  it,  Apollos,  you  are  simply  prac- 
tising on  the  quiet,  some  of  you,  what  we  advocate 
in  the  open?  You  form  a  pool,  why?  Because  you 
were  fighting  each  other  and  going  into  a  commer- 
cial grave  as  a  consequence,  but  you  decided  at  last 
to  pool  your  issues  and  thereby  save  all  extra  ex- 
pense and  waste.  You  are  not  idle,  but  find  a  place 
for  each  and  are  rewarded  according  to  your  worth. 
Exactly,  Apollos,  in  short,  you  are  practising  in  Mo- 


nopoly  what  we  aim  at  in  Bi-Metallism,  which  would 
mean  a  Universal  pool — all  in  the  Monopoly — the 
even  balance  reached  at  last  and  the  silver  and  the 
gold  of  life  would  then  be  side  by  side,  with  each  re- 
warded according  to  their  true  worth. 

Paul  you  are  certainly  a  dreamer.  Why,  Bi- 
Metallism  would  revolutionize  all  values,  create  an 
industrial  panic  and  scatter  our  Cities  to  the  winds. 
Why  not  let  well  enough  alone  instead  of  being  agi- 
tated and  creating  feeling  and  a  disturbance.  Under 
Bi-Metallism  there  would  be  no  earthly  chance  to 
make  money.  We  would  have  to  give  as  much  as 
we  receive. 

Certainly,  Apollos,  and  have  you  not,  by  your 
wiles  and  sorcery,  beguiled  us  to  your  Cities?  Have 
you  not  taken  more  than  you  were  entitled  to  be- 
cause of  this  Monopoly?  Does  it  ever  occur  to  you, 
Apollos,  in  accumulating,  as  you  term  it,  in  robbing 
us,  you  merely  rob  the  other  part  of  your  own  body, 
National,  political  and  individual,  and  go  to  sleep 
and  die  as  a  consequence?  And  does  it  ever  occur  to 
you,  Apollos,  in  ceasing  to  coin  silver,  which,  in  its 
process  of  smelting,  feeds  and  fills  the  air  with  mer- 
curial ether  and  hydrogen,  you  are  violating  a  Ter- 
restial  law  of  Nature?  Kobbing  yourself  as  well  as 
us  of  much  vital  food  and  creating  travail  in  and  on 
our  Universe?  That  the  days  and  all  life  of  day, 
including  Continents  on  the  silver  part  of  life,  or 
positive,  will  become  warmer  and  that  the  nights  and 
all  life  of  night,  including  Continents,  will  become 
colder — in  short  that  positive  Terrestrial  atoms  will 


become  warmer  and  negative  Terrestrial  atoms 
colder? 

Bosh!  What  has  a  Terrestrial  body  to  do  with 
business?  What  we  desire  now  is  peace  and  quiet 
in  order  that  Confidence  may  be  restored  and  the 
factories  set  in  motion. 

As  is  the  individual  so  will  be  the  body  politic, 
social,  industrial,  National  and  Terrestrial,  and  if 
you  disturb  a  Terrestrial  body  it  will,  by  every  law 
of  mathematics,  create  disturbance  in  an  individual, 
political,  industrial  and  National  body.  Are  we 
not  a  miniature  Continent — yea,  a  miniature  Crea- 
tion? Do  we  not  contain  all  the  chemical  proper- 
ties of  a  Continent?  And  does  the  Continent  and  its 
air  not  furnish  us  our  food?  Tamper  with  a  Terres- 
trial Law  of  Nature  and  Nature  will  catch  up  with 
you. 

You  mean  the  unusual  agitation  manifest  in  sil- 
ver men,  or  liberal  men  (as  they  term  themselves), 
and  on  Silver  Continents  is  caused  by  closing  the 
mints  to  the  coinage  of  silver?  That  in  shutting  out 
silver  and  coining  more  gold  than  ever  before  we 
keep  back  and  shut  up,  in  a  sense,  the  silver  half  of 
life.  Good.  And  do  they  not  require  keeping  down 
and  keeping  under?     Are  they  not  too  prodigal  now? 

True,  Apollos,  we  have  ever  been  far  too  prodigal, 
in  a  sense,  and  good  natured  and  easy  with  you,  but 
remember  we  have  been  the  Pauls  who  pioneered  and 
hustled  and  planted  too  much  for  you,  and  that  when 
Paul's  confidence  is  shut  up  and  he  ceases  to  be  prod- 
igal or  liberal  and  give  too  much,  Apollos  will  cease 


to  receive  as  much  as  usual  and  the  growling  we  must 
soon  face  will  he  a  natural  result. 

Chemically  speaking,  you  mean  that  in  ceasing  to 
coin  silver,  coining  gold  and  charging  the  air  with 
the  Negative  properties  and  currents  of  density  we 
strengthen  silver  which  contracts  with  cold's  prop- 
erties of  oxygen,  and  that  lack  of  confidence  and 
business  life  and  life  generally  will  follow? 

You  have  my  idea  exactly,  only  that,  as  your 
smelter  will  inform  you,  the  properties  of  the  one 
metal  feed  and  strengthen  and  purify,  by  contrac- 
tion, the  other,  but  that  each  is  poisoned  by  its  like. 

I  presume  you  mean,  Paul,  that  gold  is  strength- 
ened by  heat,  which  is  silver's  properties,  and  that 
silver,  as  its  reverse  or  complement,  is  strengthened 
by  cold,  or  the  chemical  properties  of  cold.  Is  that 
what  you  aim  at?  Yes.  Then  gold  and  silver  may 
be  taken  from  the  baser  metals  and  the  air,  after  all, 
if  your  argument  would  hold? 

Yes,  most  assuredly  so;  but  in  seeking  this  result 
we  must  remember,  as  the  smelter  will  also  inform 
us,  the  sun  will  volatilize  all  silver  life  into  mercu- 
rial ether,  which  sun  and  mercurial  ether  feeds  gold 
and  negative  minerals,  while  night  and  winter  and 
their  properties  volatilize  gold  and  feed  all  silver 
life  and  positive  minerals.  Smelters  will  also  in- 
form you  that  the  use  of  salt,  which  is  a  concentrated 
cold,  will  not  even  prevent  the  mercury  from  being 
lost  during  the  day.  So  that  as  individuals,  Apollos, 
we  really  do  die  daily,  and  but  for  the  other  half  of 
each  would  not  start  to  life  again,  and  it  might  be 


well,  Apollos,  to  seek  PauPs  confidence  again  instead 
of  denouncing  him. 

There  may  be  something  in  this  as  a  science,  but 
supply  and  demand  regulate  prices  and  the  National 
progress,  nevertheless,  my  fertile  and  volatile 
brother. 

True,  supply  and  demand  and  Monopoly  regulate 
prices  but  what  regulates  all,  Apollos?  We  fondly 
imagine  we  can  chain  the  elements,  but  the  elements, 
of  which  we  are  a  part,  chain  us  yet  somewhat,  we 
are  beginning  to  find  out.  Gold  conservatism,  or 
cold,  is  the  night  and  winter  of  all  life,  is  it  not,  my 
dear,  placid  brother?  And  do  you  expect  to  con- 
vince any  one  outside  of  New  York  and  the  conser- 
vative East  and  side  of  life  the  night  and  winter  of 
all  life  is  the  only  sound  and  safe  policy,  without  re- 
gard to  the  sunshine  of  life?  Come  now,  Apollos, 
winter,  contraction,  dissolution,  death,  will  hardly 
pass  for  the  Truth  and  only  "sound,''  as  yet. 

Well,  Paul,  contraction  is  not  a  bad  thing  to  have 
at  times.  Your  side  of  life  desire  too  much  creation, 
think  the  trouble  is  caused  by  a  lack  of  everything, 
deluge  the  whole  earth  with  produce  and  life  and 
never  satisfied.  Contraction  is  a  good  thing  to  have, 
Paul.  It  destroys  all  the  weeds  of  life,  the  vines  that 
never  should  have  been  created;  you  think  there  is 
too  little  of  everything,  including  money.  We  are 
the  reverse,  it  would  seem,  and  inclined  to  think 
there  is  too  much  of  everything,  including  life  and 
money. 

But  in  shutting  up  the  mercury,  Apollos,  did  it 
ever  seem  to  you  it  means  shutting  up  much  of  our 

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vitality  and  much  of  that  positive  current  which 
purifies  the  air,  and  that  those  only  who  are  able  to 
reach  the  other  side — ^the  even  balance — and  be  Bi- 
Metallic  in  their  tone  are  likely  to  escape  this  winter 
of  our  life? 

What  is  the  use  of  being  so  excited  and  agitated 
and  fussy,  Paul.  Bi-Metallists  seem  to  die  like  the 
rest  of  us.  If  we  can  stand  it,  who  are  satisfied  with 
Gold,  as  the  soundest  Truth,  surely  you  can.  Why 
delight  in  being  so  contrary  and  perverse? 

If  to  shut  up  the  silver  of  life  means  explosions, 
we  are  likely  to  go  together. 

Yes,  but  Apollos,  you  forget  there  are  two  of  us 
and  that  you  are  as  perverse  and  stiff-necked  in  our 
eyes  for  acting  the  pig  and  wanting  gold  and  cold 
only  as  Truth  as  we  are  perverse  in  your  eyes  for 
seeking  an  even  balance.  Justice  with  us  seems  to 
be  that  silver  and  silver  life  and  atoms  or  warmth 
should  be  treated  with  as  much  consideration  as 
gold  life  and  atoms  or  cold.  You  persist  in  forget- 
ting there  are  two  of  us,  complements  of  each  other. 

Oh,  hang  your  Justice  and  preaching  and  senti- 
ment; we  are  here  to  make  as  much  as  we  can.  What 
we  desire  now  is  peace  and  quiet  and  a  rest. 

Peace,  yes  Apollos,  and  Arbitration,  while  you 
and  your  Negative  Affinities  absorb  the  usual  lion's 
share  of  the  spoil;  but  look  out,  Apollos,  lest  the 
earth  swallow  and  absorb  the  sea  somewhat. 

And  what  are  you  going  to  do  about  it,  Paul?  We 
thrashed  you  among  the  hills  of  Scotland,  have  kept 
you  down  in  Ireland,  thrashed  you  in  Volatile 
France,  thrashed  you  in  Silver  Kussia,  have  shut 

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you  up  in  Crete,  penned  you  up  in  Cuba,  thrashed 
you  often  before  and  will  do  it  again,  my  quarrel- 
some brother. 

Thrashed  us  in  Scotland;  yes,  with  the  assistance 
of  Argyle.  Thrashed  us,  yes,  in  France,  with  the 
assistance  of  Silver's  prussian  blue.  Thrashed  us, 
yes,  in  Kussia,  with  the  assistance  of  the  Volatile 
France.  Very  adroit  at  getting  another  to  do  the 
fighting  for  you,  and  especially  adroit  at  running 
off  with  the  larger  share  of  the  spoil;  but  when  the 
prodigal  returns,  my  dear  brother,  you  will  have  no 
other  prodigal  to  assist  you  and  we  will  then  find 
out  whether  gold  or  silver,  oxygen  or  hydrogen  may 
be  the  more  ductile  or  yielding  side  of  life,  and 
whether  equal  balance  of  power  does  not  mean  an 
equal  balance  of  territory  and  Continents,  as  well 
as  of  individual  atoms. 

Now,  Paul,  do  be  calm  and  not  advertise  your  ill 
nature;  you  are  too  restless  and  boisterous  and  hot- 
headed. 

Yes,  Mr.  Cold  ApoUos,  bromine  and  chlorine  and 
cold  may  be  your  idea  of  good  nature  and  the  only 
safe  and  sound  policy,  but  your  cold  will  never  help 
you  for  having  violated  a  Terrestrial  law. 

Terrestrial  rot.  What  we  propose  now  is  busi- 
ness and  peace  and  quiet  and  rest. 

True,  Apollos,  ever  to  your  side  of  life,  and  we 
are  evidently  going  to  have  it  to — that  is  Terrestrial 
rot  and  a  rest.  This,  my  dear  brother,  may  be  a 
prodigal  Hemisphere  versus  a  receptive  Hemisphere, 
the  East  as  Conservatives  versus  the  West  and  young 
South,  the  producer  versus  the  consumer,  but  it  is 

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not  the  question  of  classes  versus  masses  you  would 
have  us  believe,  and  when  the  Pauls  of  life  have  their 
confidence  shut  up  he  withdraws  his  investments, 
hoards  his  substance  instead  of  crowding  it  on  the 
market,  contraction  begins,  your  gold  is  drawn  from 
your  treasury,  no  silver  is  being  coined  to  feed  you, 
and  through  a  chaos  of  snarls  and  growls  and  rot 
and  death  we  arrive  ultimately,  by  a  Natural  law, 
at  Bi-Metallism. 

Contraction,  dissolution,  death.  Yes,  but  Nitro- 
gen is  a  two-edged  sword,  and  for  every  silver  son 
that  falls  a  counterpart  somewhere  will  meet  their 
death. 

My  dear  "King  of  love  my  Shepherd  is,"  since  when 
did  you  start  out  as  a  calamity  howler  and  begin  to 
pose  and  show  off  as  a  Philosopher?  I  thought  you 
were  a  hustler  and  progressive  and  creative,  but 
here  you  are  settling  down  and  contracting  and  cre- 
ating feeling  and  fostering  repudiation.  Why  not 
get  to  work  and  do  something?  Man  alive,  you  will 
die  of  dry  rot  if  you  settle  down  at  home  and  practice 
the  receiving  part.  It  is  better  to  give  than  to  re- 
ceive, Paul.  Brace  up  and  invest,  spend  your  money 
freely  in  order  that  we  may  do  the  receiving. 

Thank  you,  Apollos.  Do  your  own  planting  and 
pioneering  and  producing;  you  have  abused  us,  vio- 
lated our  confidence,  dictated  to  us  the  value  of  our 
goods,  as  well  as  the  value  of  your  own,  broken  your 
promises,  been  running  off  with  the  lion's  share  of 
the  attention  and  spoil,  and  there  will  be  no  more 
confidence  reached  until  Bi-Metallism  has  been 
reached.     Confidence  is  that  which  rests  between 

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us — Justice  and  Faith.  Bi-Metallism  is  Faith,  be- 
cause it  holds  neither  of  us  under  ground  or  in  bond- 
age, and  your  flout  of  creating  feeling,  etc.,  is  sheer 
ignorance,  since  your  abuse  of  us  in  our  ears  is  the 
same  feeling.  When  you  catch  an  absorbent  calf 
by  the  ear  it  bawls.  When  you  catch  a  greedy  pig 
by  the  ear  it  squeals.  Yes,  and  every  other  ox  and 
pig  around  takes  up  the  strain  and  bellows;  yes,  and 
grunts  around  your  heels,  "pitch  fork,''  anarchist, 
dangerous,  revolutionist,  cheap  reprobate,  prodigal, 
and  "bad  form,"  "don't  you  know"  is  offered  as  argu- 
ment, mathematics  and  analysis.  The  same  nega- 
tive hiss  that  crucified  martyrs  and  has  fought  every 
liberal  suggestion  beginning  with  flouts  and  jibes 
and  noes  and  ending  by  accepting  the  suggestions 
giving  birth  to  them  as  a  policy  and  claiming  them 
then  as  their  very  own — Gold  the  basis  of  society! 
The  golden  molten  calf  the  basis  of  society.  Ah,  he 
is  a  wonderfully  greedy  beast,  this  prince  of  dark- 
ness, and  he  is  never  satisfied.  And  yet  we  are  not 
one  whit  better,  as  presently  constituted,  for  if  we 
were  not  so  prodigal  he  would  simply  not  receive 
as  much.  We  have  too  much  hydrogen;  he  has  too 
much  oxygen,  and  it  takes  us  both  in  Harmony  to 
reach  Truth  or  Nitrogen  or  Electricity,  for  Truth, 
between  heat  and  cold  is  Electricity.  Truth  between 
flat  and  sharp  in  Harmony  is  Electricity.  A  current 
and  counter  current,  a  cycle  of  giving  and  receiving, 
where  neither  note  dominates.  Truth  between 
every  Bi-Metallic  harmony  of  color,  the  blending  of 
a  blue  with  red,  an  orange  with  purple,  is  Bi-Metall- 
ism, or  Truth  of  Color,  an  equality  in  which  neither 

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tone  dominates,  but  in  which  they  heighten  and  illu- 
minate and  feed  each  other.  Not  such  an  Electricity 
or  Truth,  however,  as  man  has  as  yet  chained  in  his 
business,  but  a  Truth  far  more  powerful,  existing  in 
the  even  balance  of  all  atoms.  Nitrogen  or  Spirit, 
the  Creator  of  all  life.  Besting  in  the  even  balance 
until  such  time  as  we  return  to  Justice  as  a  Terrestial 
people. 

The  attempted  Harmony  of  two  negative  atoms 
create  discord  and  absorbtion  and  is  a  continual 
source  of  unhappiness,  individual  or  National  as  it 
is  a  perpetual  filch,  and  the  same  will  apply  to  the 
attempted  harmony  of  two  positive  atoms,  only  that, 
instead  of  absorption,  it  is  the  reverse  process  and  is 
propulsion.  The  size  of  a  body  does  not  govern  its 
gravity,  as  has  so  often  been  supposed.  No,  it  is  the 
degree,  as  any  electrician  will  admit. 

The  harmony  of  a  positive  with  its  true  negative 
in  color  in  the  even  balance,  however,  is  a  New  Crea- 
tion. The  two  alloy  as  one,  they  throw  off  a  body 
which  is  negative  and,  while  invisable,  they  are  the 
Truth  of  that  body  and  subsequent  life,  as  chemistry 
and  the  harmony  of  colors,  as  mineral  pigments  or 
atoms  will  demonstrate,  and  it  would  seem  the  same 
law  of  Nature  governing  mineral  atoms  govern  all. 

My  dear  Paul,  you  talk  too  much  —  are  too  vis- 
ionary, and  there  is  nothing  sound  or  solid  or  sub- 
stantial about  your  arguments —  what  we  need  in  life 
now  is  less  music,  less  color,  less  excitement  and  more 
sound,  common  sense;  and  the  more  I  hear  you  the 
more  I  am  convinced,  Paul,  gold  is  the  basis  of  so- 
ciety and  the  only  reliable  policy  or  metal,  while  the 

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mere  suggestion  of  silver  sounds  cheap  and  is  offen- 
sive and  vulgar. 

"Gold  is  the  only  sound,"  etc.  Ah,  yes;  and  what 
Jiidge  would  agree  with  defendant  who  came  into 
court  boasting  the  defense  as  the  only  truth  of  that 
court?  And  what  composer  would  agree  with  the 
flats  of  life  who  came  into  the  music  room  boasting 
the  cold  bassos  and  cold  altos  as  the  only  truth,  with- 
out regard  to  the  warm  soprano  and  tenor  tones? 
And  what  artist  would  agree  with  Negation  who 
came  into  the  studio  boasting  Gold's  negative  pig- 
ments of  green  and  orange  and  red  were  the  truth  of 
Color,  without  regard  to  Silver's  pigments  of  the  blue 
and  purple  of  life?  And  what  chemist  or  board  of 
health  officer  or  Physician  would  agree  that  the  prop- 
erties of  gold  alone  are  the  basis  of  his  society?  That 
oil  could  exist  without  the  wine  of  life? 

My  dear  Apollos,  you  are  a  fine  conservative  fel- 
low, somewhat  cold  at  times,  but  some  day  you  may 
be  alive  to  the  fact  there  are  two  of  us,  or  strictly 
speaking,  four  of  us.  A  prodigal  man  at  the  liberal 
side  a  grey  eagle  of  life  also  at  the  prodigal  hydro- 
genic  side.  A  quiet,  conservative  man,  and  a  quiet, 
conservative  woman  at  the  oxygenic  or  receptive  side. 
And  you  may  also  note  that  while  you  detest  the  vo- 
latile and  creative  in  us,  you  are  wedded  to  it  your- 
self, nevertheless,  either  as  an  individual,  national 
or  continental  atom.  And  the  reverse  will  hold,  for 
while  detesting  a  calm  man,  we  seem  to  fancy  a  placid 
woman,  and  as  a  rule  are  wedded  to  the  lion  of  life. 
It  seems  doubtful,  however,  if,  as  presently  consti- 
tuted and  dominated  by  Monopoly,  man  ever  meets 

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his  true  counterpart,  otherwise  there  would  have 
been  an  evolution  of  the  race  as  the  result  of  a  nat- 
ural selection  or  of  a  harmony  dictated  by  Truth,  in- 
stead of  by  Monopoly,  for  the  soul  seems  never  to  be 
satisfied,  either,  with  Monopoly  in  giving  too  much 
or  with  Monopoly  in  receiving  too  much,  and  seems 
ever  striving,  or  aiming  at,  or  seeking  for,  something 
it  has  never  —  found. 

Look  here,  Paul,  suppose  we  stop  this  canting  and 
ranting  now.  We  are  in  a  Monopoly  of  the  world's 
products.  The  cities  and  stores  in  every  land  are 
our  agents,  just  as  the  distributing  points  of  the 
Standard  Oil  Company  are  and  act  as  agents.  We 
have  you  down  in  bondage;  yes,  under  the  very 
ground,  and  we  intend  to  keep  you  down  if  we  can, 
now  —  there. 

That  sounds  better  than  peace,  peace  and  arbi- 
tration, while  you  quietly  absorb  the  earth,  but  you 
are  in  for  it  now,  Apollos,  and  will  have  to  face  a 
rabbit  your  owm  size  at  last,  for  when  silver  men  and 
nations  begin  to  realize  the  truth  and,  returning, 
claim  their  portion  in  the  even  balance  on  the  earth, 
including  territory,  all  the  growling  you  can  raise, 
Apollos,  will  not  avail.  Eemember,  that  when  the 
prodigal  returns  and  ceases  to  be  prodigal  the  recep- 
tive half  do  not  receive  as  much  as  usual,  and  ceasing 
to  be  prodigal  and  returning  to  just  weights  and  even 
balances,  including  the  coinage  of  treasure  and  the 
division  of  territory,  cannot  be  repudiaton.  It  might 
also  be  well  to  remember  that  as  you  disturb  the  leaf 
of  a  tree  you  disturb  all  the  living  life  thereon,  and 
so  with  a  terrestrial  body.     If  the  silver  m^  mercury  or 

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hydrogen  in  the  air  or  earth  is  shut  up  or  compressed,  in- 
stead of  being  coined  to  purify  the  air  and  earth,  it  will 
purge  that  body  and  Continent  —  yes,  and  all  its  life. 
Travail  in  the  air  and  an  the  earth  means  travail  in  the 
human  body,  and  agitation,  travail,  famine,  the  sword, 
pestilence,  and  the  plague  are  part  of  the  purging  process. 
Methinks  Negation's  foot  has  stumbled  in  his  greed 
for  gain,  as  foreordained,  and  we  must  be  prepared 
to  face  the  night  and  winter  of  our  life  before  the 
dawning  Tri-Millenial.  You  are  a  fine  fellow,  Apol- 
los,  calm  and  steady,  with  many  staying  qualities  we 
seem,  as  yet,  to  lack,  but  when  it  coiaes  to  infallible 
and  the  only  sound  policy,  we  object,  knowing 
Truth,  to  rest  with  the  scales  between  us  both.  With 
Justice  on  his  side,  no  negative  can  keep  the  silver 
under  ground  or  compressed  for  long  without  serious 
individual  political  and  national  results;  yes,  even 
to  terrestrial  atoms,  meaning  earthquakes.  In  short, 
earthquakes  and  eruptions,  individual,  political,  na- 
tional and  terrestrial  will  simply  follow  as  a  natural 
law. 

Paul,  you  are  a  good-hearted  sort  of  fellow,  after 
all,  when  we  let  you  alone.  Bi-Metallism  may  be  all 
right,  but  business  is  business,  and  really,  now,  we 
cannot  afford  to  begin  and  give  back  any  territory  or 
possessions.  We  can  out-point  you  and  out-man- 
euver you  with  our  influence  and  diplomacy  at  every 
turn,  Paul,  and  you  may  as  well  get  to  work.  Do  the 
duty  and  work  you  were  created  for,  pioneering.  And 
yet  conscience  tells  me  that  Bi-Metallism  would  be 
Justice.  Hold  on  a  little,  Paul.  What  is  your  rush. 
You  say  that  flouts  and  jibes  and  scolds  are  not  math- 

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ematics  or  analysis  and  that  we  must  start  our  own 
individual  brains  and  factories  and  test  by  their 
mathematical  process  the  suggestions  offered  by  you 
and  the  questions  of  finance  that  brought  us  where 
we  are,  then  we  will  begin  here  and  now.  If  we 
here,  as  two  individuals,  divide  our  possessions,  will 
it  benefit  the  balance  of  creation?  No.  Does  a  pool 
of  any  kind  afford  those  outside  the  pool  the  same 
chance?  No;  and  every  man  and  every  woman  in 
this  universe  is  kept  back  because  they  are  not  all  in 
the  pool  together,  as  you  know.  But,  Paul,  if  we 
induce  the  nations  to  form  an  international  pool, 
then  it  would  descend,  by  every  law  of  mathematics 
and  analysis,  according  to  your  theory,  to  the  mean- 
est creature  on  earth,  for  cereals  and  animals,  too, 
you  will  note,  Paul,  are  out  of  balance  and  in  monopo- 
ly of  either  too  much  silver  properties  or  too  much 
gold  properties.  So,  likewise,  with  the  metals,  if  we 
coin  an  equal  amount  of  silver  side  by  side  with  gold, 
so  that  the  air  we  breathe,  and  the  air  all  atoms 
breathe  and  feed  upon,  is  equal  and  has  an  equal 
chance,  and  so  that  we  would  be  equal  givers  and  re- 
ceivers, neither  dominating.  We  might  all  be  in  the 
pool,  as  Americans,  but  would  be  leaving  out  the 
other  Continent  entirely,  the  conservative  continent, 
so  that  you  would  virtually  be  having  us,  as  a  terres- 
trial people,  at  the  feet  of  a  silver  idol  or  prodigal 
Continent,  instead  of,  as  at  present,  at  the  feet  of  and 
in  bondage  to,  a  negative  or  receptive  Continent  Our 
aim  is  to  practice,  as  a  whole  terrestrial  people,  what 
we  have  ever  preached  on  Sunday,  but  violated  at 
our  Monetary  Conferences  on  Monday  —  Even  bal- 


ances.  Absorb  all,  take  all,  into  the  pool.  A  ter- 
restrial wedding  and  blending.  So  that,  Paul,  you 
will  perceive  we  are  both  working  towards  the  same 
goal,  only  by  the  reverse  process  of  each  other.  We 
desire  to  absorb  all,  take  all,  into  the  pool.  You  de- 
sire to  give  all  the  equal  chance.  If  you  were  half 
as  fast  at  heeding  business  that  enables  us  to  earn 
our  income  as  you  are  impatient  to  spend  it  for  us 
before  it  is  earned,  we  would  reach  success  so  much 
earlier,  Paul.  You  are  too  slow  at  heeding  our  de- 
sires and  point  of  view,  and  too  fast  and  anxious  to 
display  your  own  fire-works.  There  are  two  of  us, 
you  say;  then  face  our  side  first.  You  are  the  oppo- 
sition or  defense,  and  evidently  unaware  of  it.  You 
denounce  us,  but,  as  admitted,  seem  very  fond  of 
wedding  us  and  enjoying  our  gold  either  as  an  indi- 
vidual atom,  a  national  atom  or  a  terrestrial  atom. 

Since  you  are  beginning  to  settle  down  to  analy- 
sis now,  Apollos,  and  mathematics  we  may  soon  be 
able  to  reach  an  even  balance  of  protection  to  Paul 
and  his  silver  warmth,  as  well  as  to  Apollos  and  his 
cold  gold.  Yes,  my  dear  brother,  we  are  too  fast 
and  too  impatient,  and  possessed  of  too  much  warmth 
and  youth,  and  the  longer  you  keep  us  penned  up 
and  shirk  the  question  of  finance  in  favor  of  your 
selfish  factories  and  eastern  cities,  gold,  as  "the  only 
sound  Truth,"  the  warmer  and  unyielding  and  re- 
fractory the  sun's  warmth  is  likely  to  become.  And 
while  it  is  true  this  is  your  innings  and  the  current 
has  been  reversed,  the  East  being  the  advance  agent 
with  the  West  and  young  South  as  receptive  (dark- 
ness turning  into  day  and  the  reverse  holding),  we 

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are  the  party  who  posited  the  question  of  finance 
and  money  as  the  issue,  and  the  conditions  of  the 
game  were  finance,  and  no  one  would  listen  to  any- 
thing but  finance.  If  you  will  create  a  policy  that 
will  be  other  than  absorption,  we  will  assume  the 
mathematical  process,  but  since  Paul  and  the  silver 
side  of  life  generally  posit  the  argument  and  the 
great  question  of  Bi-Metallism  was  advanced  by  the 
liberal  half  of  life,  while  the  conservative  half,  by  a 
law  of  nature,  lined  up  with  their  own  graven  image, 
or  mineral  of  density.  We  must  remind  you  to  keep 
the  promises  you  made  and  face  manfully  the  finan- 
cial and  other  questions  of  domestic,  social  and  po- 
litical economy,  confronting  the  age  instead  of  dis- 
gusting all  with  your  selfish  and  mathematical  fac- 
tories. Too  slow  at  heeding  the  promises  made  to 
the  people,  too  ready  to  let  your  mathematics  dictate 
and  to  frame  a  law  favoring  the  older  son,  while  the 
second  son  has  to  whistle  and  do  the  grovelling  for 
you.  That  we  are  wedded  to  this  Monopoly  of  money 
ourselves,  as  individuals,  as  nations  and  as  terres- 
trial bodies,  we  admit,  but  the  fight  we  have  main- 
tained against  its  dominance  over  us  has  been  per- 
petual. Has  it  not  ever  stifled  our  aims,  ambitions 
and  progress?  Has  it  not  kept  us  continually  in  bond- 
age and  the  only  result  been  the  birth  of  another  life 
to  leave  us  and  try  and  strive  again  for  this  same  even 
balance  of  the  scales.  Just  as  it  has  resulted  in  the 
birth  of  a  Colony  or  Nation  to  strive  again  for  this 
same  even  balance  of  the  scales. 

As  to  your  problem,  we  note  you  begin  at  the  math- 
ematical end  as  usual,  Apollos.     As  individuals,  how- 

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ever,  before  we  became  Nations,  we  may  be  pardoned 
for  suggesting  the  individual  is  even  yet  responsible 
for  this  Monopoly  and  Bacteriology  and  Electricity 
confirm  the  possibility  of  one  human  atom  changing 
the  life  of  a  Terrestrial  atom,  if  assisted  by  Nitrogen, 
although  admitting  your  reverse  process  would  hold. 

Paul,  you  are  an  interesting  fellow,  after  all. 
Have  many  attractive  qualities  —  qualities  we  lack. 
Agile  and  original  and  somewhat  more  volatile,  but 
we  never  know  where  to  find  you,  Paul,  or  what  you 
will  do  or  say  next.  You  are  so  uncertain,  my  counter- 
part, and  —  my,  but  you  are  fast,  and  dying  of  prodi- 
gality. Then  gold  is  not  the  only  Sound  Truth,  is  it? 
Ahem!  I  have  sent  my  representative  to  find  out, 
Paul.  Then  wire  him  Apollos  to  brace  up  before  the 
storms  begin,  because  there  are  two  of  us  —  one  ex- 
pecting the  other  to  make  brick  without  straw  (heat) 
—  and  the  other  thinking  he  can  generate  steam,  and 
reach  prosperity  "without  the  aid  and  consent"  of 
moisture  —  or  the  other  half  of  the  Universe.  Yes, 
you  are  such  a  restless  lot,  you  pitchforks  of  life,  and 
seem  to  be  getting  more  and  more  so  every  day.  Why 
not  keep  quiet  and  let  the  factories  turn  out  pros- 
perity for  you.  Mathematical  factories  and  gold  and 
cities,  my  dear  Paul,  and  law  are  "the  basis  of  so- 
ciety." 

Of  course,  Apollos;  you  seem  to  forget,  however, 
that  everything  you  have,  from  the  food  you  eat  to 
the  raiment  you  wear,  must  come  first  from  the  Pauls 
w^ho  plant  the  producing  and  silver  side  of  life,  and 
when  Paul  does  not  come  to  town,  why  my  dear  fel- 
low, town  will  very  soon  move  out  to  Paul,  and  there 


is  your  Bi-Metallism,  with  your  factories  and  Cities 
(in  Monopoly  at  present)  scattered  to  the  winds.  — 
There  now,  Paul,  be  calm;  not  so  fast,  not  so  much 
love,  my  king,  and  a  little  more  Roman  Saxon  law 
and  order. 

Ah,  yes.  Law  for  your  own  selfish  factories  and 
negative  affinities,  but  have  a  care,  my  older  brother, 
Apollos;  our  desire  was  unto  you  as  long  as  you  did 
what  was  near  right,  but  when  your  foot  slipped,  re- 
member our  eyes  were  to  be  open.  And  w^hen  Eng- 
land, in  her  absorbent  greed,  desired  to  grab  Vene- 
zuela, desired  to  grab  Mines  in  Alaska  and  Mines  in 
Africa,  under  the  guise  of  a  Saint  and  Arbitration, 
the  while  their  fleets  were  propping  up  their  negative 
Turk  and  absorbing  Africa,  the  silver  and  prodigal 
Nations  of  the  earth  began  to  detest  her.  And  when 
the  East  began  to  desire  Gold  alone  and  absorption 
and  Monopoly  as  the  only  sound  policy,  the  West  and 
young  South  began  to  detest  her,  and  when  the  small 
stores  began  to  learn  they  were  being  quietly  ab- 
sorbed by  Monopoly  they  began  to  detest  her,  and 
when  the  producer  generally  began  to  realize  the 
Cities  and  stores  and  receptive  atoms  or  bodies,  In- 
dustrial and  National,  representing  Negative  in  the 
play  of  the  Universe,  were  forever  absorbing  the 
Lion's  share,  they  began  to  detest  them  and  this  Mon- 
opoly, until  the  whole  earth  now  is  in  revolt  at  this 
absorbent  greed  and  gun-powder  is  being  manufact- 
ured by  contraction  in  the  breast  of  the  silver  half  of 
life,  even  to  Terrestrial  bodies  and  refraction  of  the 
Sun. 

Keep  your  feeling  and  agitation  and  abuse  in 

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store  now,  Paul;  remember  it  is  your  own  counter- 
part you  are  denouncing.  The  Koman  Saxon,  my 
dear  brother,  is  as  safe  and  sound  among  the  Nations 
as  gold  is  in  business. 

Yes,  Apollos,  and  they  are  the  only  and  the 
infallible.  Methinks  that  has  a  familiar  sound. 
But  Leo  XIII  is  a  prodigal  son  himself,  never- 
theless, from  a  spiritual  point  of  view  —  tender, 
and  warm-hearted,  and  compassionate,  radiating 
and  giving  into  the  ether  more  vitality  than  he 
receives.  Yes,  a  silver  son  whose  compositions  and 
whose  sentiments  betray  the  breath  of  living  life  — 
yes,  mark  him  well  for  soon  this  father,  too,  will,  as 
he  nears  the  other  side,  be  calling  in  his  flock  and  will 
adopt  a  Bi-Metallic  tone. 

Bi-Metallism,  that  is  International  Bi-Metallism, 
we  propose  to  bring  about,  as  the  conservative  half  of 
the  world,  in  our  own  conservative  way  and  in  our 
own  good  time,  and  we  do  not  propose  to  have  a  pol- 
icy manufactured  for  us,  Mr.  Paul.  Ah,  indeed,  Mr. 
Apollos,  then  if  you  intend  to  formulate  a  new  policy 
other  than  absorption,  your  creative  Forakers  and 
Thurstons  and  the  hydrogen  of  your  administration 
will  have  to  formulate  it.  Was  Negative  ever  formed 
without  the  silver  plate  in  harmong  with  iodine, 
bromine,  chlorine,  etc.?  And  was  positive  ever  cre- 
ated and  completed  again  as  original  without  the 
negative  being  in  harmony  with  the  grey  eagle  of 
life,  as  represented  in  the  chemical  properties  of  the 
sun?  My  dear  Apollos,  you  must  be  dull  if  you  can 
not  see  that  even  political  parties  are  governed  by 
the  same  natural  laws  as  are  any  other  atoms,  and 

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that  they,  too,  are  out  of  balance.  Your  McKinley 
party  seems  like  the  Cleveland  party.  More  oxygen 
and  gold  properties  than  hydrogen  and  silver  prop- 
erties; but  wait  until  the  parties  settle  down  to  busi- 
ness and  you  will  find  it  is  no  longer  Republican  ver- 
sus Democrat,  but  Whig  versus  Tory,  or  Liberal  ver- 
sus Conservative,  or  Silver  versus  Gold. 

The  same  reprobate  Naturalist,  Paul;  how  horrid. 
Think  what  the  Nation  escaped  when  it  escaped  Bi- 
Metallism. 

Reprobate  is  merely  a  flout,  ApoUos.  The  ques- 
tion is,  are  these  suggestions  true?  And  if  true, 
then  Truth  is  beastly  only  to  the  beast. 

And  what  has  Nature  to  do  with  business  and 
National  Exchange? 

My  dear  Apollos,  the  laws  governing  business 
relations  are  Nature's  laws,  and  the  laws  govern- 
ing National  relations  and  Terrestrial  relations  in 
the  flowing  and  the  ebbing  tides  are  Nature's  laws. 
And  as  there  are  unjust  relations  with  individuals, 
there  are  unjust  relations  with  political  parties 
and  Nations.  Unjust  relations  in  the  individual 
are  like  the  Apricot  and  Mule  —  soon  blotted  out; 
so,  likewise,  with  the  Nations.  When  the  time 
arrives,  however,  for  us  to  adopt  Bi-Metallism 
and  thereby  practice  what  we  preach,  the  Na- 
tions and  the  individuals,  it  begins  to  seem,  will  have 
their  promised  heart's  desire,  and  we  will  embark  on 
a  New  Era  of  life  under  the  New  Covenant  and  under 
a  light  that  will  be  something  other  than  the  sun  and 
moon.  When  we  acquire  a  taste  for  tobacco  we  take 
with  it  its  counterpart,  which  is  a  mortgage  on  us, 

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ever  craving  more.  When  we  acquire  a  taste  for 
wine  we  take  with  it  its  counterpart,  which  is  a  mort- 
gage on  us,  ever  craving  more;  and  so  with  all  our 
varied  tastes  and  habits.  The  more  we  give  the  more 
we  desire  to  give.  The  more  we  receive  the  more  we 
desire  to  receive;  and  it  will  be  found  the  same  argu- 
ment holds  in  a  National  body  bonded  to  its  counter- 
part, as  well  as  any  other  atom  with  life  on  earth, 
and  it  will  only  be  a  question  of  time  when  the  mort- 
gage will  be  foreclosed  and  death,  individual  or  Na- 
tional, would  be  the  natural  result,  unless  our  eyes 
were  opened  to  the  Truth.  A  Truth  which  reads 
American  prodigality,  good  nature,  liberality,  giving 
ever,  as  a  Continent,  more  than  we  received,  has  been 
responsible  for  our  bondage  as  a  Continent  to  the 
otlier  half  of  life.  If  America,  as  a  Hemisphere, 
would  remain  at  home  instead  of  spending  their  time 
and  attention  and  treasures  in  another  land,  the 
other  Hemisphere  would  then  be  willing  to  meet  us 
half  way  in  all  things,  including  values.  If  the  West 
and  young  South,  who  have  ever  been  generous, 
would  remain  at  home,  the  East  would  very  soon  be 
willing  to  meet  them  half  way  in  all  things,  including 
values.  When  the  producer  has  his  eyes  open  to  the 
fact  the  City  and  store  dictate  to  him  the  price  of  his 
own  goods,  which  they  consider  "cheap''  and  "repro- 
bate," and  sell  him  the  same  goods  adulterated  and 
with  the  strength  manufactured  out  of  them  at  high 
prices,  then  is  it  time  to  scorn  the  husks  by  returning 
home.  And  that,  my  dear  Apollos,  is  what  your  con- 
traction and  Monopoly  is  going  to  be  responsible  for. 
Electrically  speaking,  England,  in  her  business 

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relations  with  Kussia,  or  any  silver  Nation,  is  en- 
gaged in  International  purity  and  Justice  for  each 
Nation,  dictating  the  value  of  their  products;  it  is 
a  cycle  of  giving  and  receiving  —  a  current  and  coun- 
ter-current in  which  neither  dominates.  But  Eng- 
land, in  her  business  relations  with  other  gold  stand- 
ard Nations,  by  virtue  of  her  Monopoly,  dictates  the 
price  —  a  perpetual  filch  both  ways,  —  and  is,  elec- 
trically speaking,  a  national  and  promiscuous  adul- 
teress beguiling  the  Nations  of  the  earth  with  her  sor- 
cery and  wiles.  A  veritable  Babylon,  in  short,  while 
posing  as  an  Altruist  and  Saint,  for  the  harmony  of 
two  Negative  atoms  reads  absorption  by  the  larger 
body  as  emphatically  as  that  the  attempted  harmony 
of  two  positive  atoms  reads  propulsion  —  the  one 
warmth  snuffing  out  the  other. 

Humph!  The  factories  will  hold  the  people  in 
groups,  as  any  man  of  sense  would  perceive.  But 
you  have  everything  but  sense,  Paul.  Why,  if  I  had 
your  audacity — your  nerve — without  your  agility 
and  theatrical  airs,  there  is  nothing  on  earth  that 
I  could  not  do,  Paul.  But  you  are  too  sensational, 
too  visionary,  take  in  too  much  territory,  and  there 
is  entirely  too  much  fur  and  feather  about  you,  Paul. 
As  to  your  abuse  of  England,  that  is  simply  vulgar, 
prompted  by  jealousy  and  envy  and  an  ill-natured 
atttempt  to  "create  feeling''  and  prejudice. 

"Creating  feeling" — Methinks  that  has  a  familiar 
sound,  Apollos;  and  "prejudice'' — yes,  but  you  shirk 
the  question  of  Truth,  as  usual,  detesting  a  Truth  of 
yourself  that  hurts  and  brings  forth  "creating  feel- 
ing," etc.,  preferring  a  Truth  that  reads  "dangerous," 

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Anarchist,  Eepudiator,  etc.  Yes,  we  understand. 
As  to  the  other  suggestion,  the  reverse  ever  holds 
if  True,  since  we  are  counterparts  and  you  are  my 
mathematics.  If  I  had  your  repose  and  staying 
qualities,  with  some  of  my  own,  so  that  I  could  reach 
the  even  balance,  I  should  be  in  harmony  with  the 
Universe,  a  part  of  Truth,  and  there  is  nothing  on 
earth  I  could  not  do.  To  reach  the  other  side  and 
see  ourselves  as  the  other  side  may  see  us  is  now  the 
Philosophy  of  our  time,  Apollos.  To  thoroughly 
recognize  there  are  two  of  us  and  that  we  are  dia- 
metrically opposite,  with  the  Truth  between  us,  is 
to  be  Bi-Metallic  in  our  tone.  As  to  the  fur  and 
feather  and  demagogic  part,  every  male  on  earth  is 
a  demagogue  pealing  a  love  song  to  his  mate  and 
possessed  of  a  bearing  suggestive  of  plumage  and 
fur  of  varied  hue.  Why  is  it  your  side  of  life — ^the 
conservative  man — detests  a  brilliant  color,  Apollos, 
and  has  little  use  for  poetry  or  allegory,  or  anything 
oriental  and  with  a  rythm  or  cadence  about  it?  You 
certainly  seem  constitutionally  opposed  to  an  even 
balance  in  anything.  All  negative  birds  are  quiet  in 
their  manner,  as  a  rule,  Apollos,  and  somewhat  quiet 
in  their  dress,  but  the  negative  bird  is  a  maneuverer 
and  full  of  wiles  and  sorcery,  as  mark  how  she  will 
lure  you  with  deceit  far  from  her  nest  Not  that  we 
object  to  placidity,  Apollos,  but  only  in  answer  to 
the  assertion  gold  is  the  basis  of  society  and  the  only 
and  infallible  Truth  we  protest,  insisting  there  are 
two  of  us,  that  neither  should  dominate,  and  believ- 
ing in  Keciprocity,  which  is  also  the  Philosophy  of 

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Electricity — a  current  of  giving  as  well  as  receiv- 
ing— a  current  and  counter-current. 

Paul,  you  are  like  the  silver  sun  of  which  you 
speak — fitful,  somewhat  boisterous  and  far  too  mer- 
curial. When  we  imagine  you  down  for  all  time  you 
break  forth  in  a  fit  of  warmth  as  if  there  never  had 
been  night  or  death.  Tempest  and  tumult  and  some- 
thing tragic  and  startling,  your  eyes  seem  to  be 
a  magnifying  glass,  Paul,  exaggerating  ever — ^too 
much  noise  and  boom  and  parade,  Paul. 

Yes,  Apollos,  and  you  seem  to  be  like  the  cold, 
cold  moon,  that  is  growing  very  old,  remember,  calm 
and  placid  and  cold — the  only  spectacles  through 
which  you  observe  everything.  Your  eyes  are  sim- 
ply my  reverse  process,  however,  the  magnifying 
glass  reversed  seeing  everything  a  long  way  off  and 
a  narrow  guage.  Your  idea  of  the  Universe  is  one 
manufactured  by  Negation  to  special  order  and  war- 
ranted to  suit  all  negative  points  of  view,  a  Universe 
of  slow,  gradual  growth  and  evolution.  There  is 
nothing  fitful  in  your  idea  of  life  or  fitful  or  spas- 
modic in  your  idea  of  growth.  Age  after  age  with 
Negation  has  advanced  under  Negation  as  the  only 
"sound,"  etc.,  and  is  still  advancing — by  sloth — never 
thinking  for  a  moment  there  are  days  and  summers  of 
life  as  well  as  nights  and  winters,  and  that  there  are 
storms  and  tempests,  as  well  as  calms.  Do  you  im- 
agine, Apollos,  if  an  earthquake  should  wipe  us  out 
of  existence  the  ruins  of  your  negative  and  industrial 
sky-scrapers  and  factories  would  compare  favorably 
with  the  ruins  of  France  or  Greece  in  Creative  worth 
in  Architecture  or  in  an  ideal  God? 

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And  your  idea  of  a  Universe,  Paul,  as  I  under- 
stand it,  has  been  that  it  is  an  embryo  which  ex- 
plodes in  combustion  every  thousand  years  or  two, 
as  the  veil  of  the  Universe  is  rent  in  twain,  and  that 
a  new  created  world  springs  up  in  evolution  at 
Heaven's  command,  but  that  is  an  exploded  theory, 
my  dear  boy.  Even  your  advanced  Gladdens  and 
Abbotts  are  beginning  to  realize  the  Bible,  as  a  sacred 
work,  contains  much  that  is  fiction  and  poetry,  song 
and  "folk  lore." 

True,  Apollos,  in  part,  that  every  sheep  seems 
to  be  straying,  "every  one  to  his  own  way."  Casting 
down  such  as  stand  in  the  way  of  book  or  literary 
knowledge  as  if  knowledge  received  from  books  was 
anything  other  than  negative  mathematical  or  past 
history  knowledge. 

"I  will  distil  my  speech  upon  the  dew,"  Truth 
tells  us,  and  is  warmth  of  life  not  fed  in  a  sense  by 
moisture  as  moisture  is  fed  by  heat?  And  was  the 
reverse  process  not  formed  to  test  the  theories  by 
mathematics? 

And  if  the  Bible  had  been  formed  to  suit  Apollos 
only,  when  we  are  diametrically  opposite,  without 
regard  to  Paul,  where  would  have  been  the  Truth 
that  holds  us  even  yet  in  hand?  My  dear  Apollos, 
as  a  Philosophy  of  the  positive  giving  part  of  life  as 
well  as  the  gravity  and  receiving  part  of  life  the 
Bible  is  the  greatest  of  all  Doctrines  and  the  only 
Spiritual  or  Electrical  Truth,  a  Truth  that  has  ever 
recognized  and  cared  for  both.  If  Gladden  and  Ab- 
bott would  study  the  Philosophy  of  Electricity  they 
would  begin  and  realize  the  suggestions  of  a  prodigal 

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son,  of  Isaac,  of  the  Song  of  Moses  and  the  Rock,  in 
fact  that  all  allegorical  suggestions  from  Genesis  to 
Revelations  were  both  Spiritual  and  Material,  for 
Spirit  or  Electricity  or  Nitrogen  is  composed  of 
atoms  and  mineral  pigments  of  mercury  and  hydro- 
gen, as  well  as  gold  and  oxygen  and  the  properties 
of  the  air,  are  identical  with  those  of  the  earth  and 
human  body.  Electrically  or  Psychically  speaking, 
Jonah  would  be  swallowed  by  the  whale,  if  at  sea, 
for  the  whale  is  a  negative  fish,  and  if  Jonah  was 
too  mercurial,  the  whale,  being  too  absorbent,  would 
absorb  him.  Electrically  and  Chemically,  the  study 
of  Electricity  as  a  Philosophy  would  also  enable 
these  advanced  thinkers  to  read  the  covenant  with 
Moses  in  the  Testimony,  was  an  allegorical  de- 
scription,  not  only  of  the  positive  and  negative  Con- 
tinents and  negative  and  positive  Continents,  but 
also  of  the  anatomy  of  the  positive  and  negative  man 
and  positive  and  negative  woman.  That,  Electric- 
ally speaking,  or  Psychically  or  Spiritually  speak- 
ing, they  represent  the  same  as  the  first  chapter  of 
Ezekiel,  the  creation  of  a  Photograph  and  the  Crea- 
tion of  all  life.  That  it  is  scales  level,  even  balances 
and  Bi-Metallism,  as  Electricity  and  as  the  same 
Truth  has  far  more  Philosophy  in  it  than  seems  to 
be  realized.  Think  of  it,  Apollos,  not  a  breath  of 
living  life  was  ever  created  without  reaching  this 
even  balance  or  harmony  of  the  metals  and  minerals 
of  all  the  precious  treasures  of  this  earth,  the  Nitro- 
gen of  life,  for  the  human  body,  while  dominated  by 
a  monopoly  of  either  hydrogen  or  oxygen,  has  all  the 
chemical  properties  of  a  continent.     And  in  times 

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like  these,  when  it  is  a  question  of  a  father  versus  his 
son,  we  may  understand  what  is  meant  in  the  Song 
of  Moses,  "Of  the  Kock  that  begat  thee  thou  art  un- 
mindful and  hast  forgotten  God  that  formed  thee." 
Yes,  my  dear  Apollos,  these  are  times  when  knowl- 
edge is  being  distilled  upon  the  dew  as  food  for 
babes,  and  days  are  also  near,  it  would  seem,  when 
some  of  our  wise  men  will  be  ridiculed,  too,  for  a 
very  large  proportion  of  children  in  these  very  days 
are  going  through  a  fire  of  heat  because,  forsooth, 
they  will  not  bow  down  to  a  Golden  Molten  Calf; 
that  is  (let  us  see  how  large,  for  in  these  days  we  are 
material  not  spiritual)  in  a  monopoly.  Material, 
yes;  but  where  is  the  matter,  pray,  that  does  not  con- 
tain the  Spirit  of  Nitrogen?  Even  Spencer  has 
changed  his  ideas  and  acknowledged  psychology  and 
matter  as  indissolubly  connected. 

Gold  the  basis  of  society!  the  chemical  properties 
of  the  moon  the  basis  of  society.  And  does  the 
mariner  not  recognize  a  Truth  between  sun  and 
moon?  And  does  the  mariner  not  recognize  a  breeze 
towards  the  land  during  the  day  and  at  night  the 
reverse  process,  a  warm  breeze  from  the  land  to  the 
sea?  And  what  mariner  would  trust  to  and  take 
his  observations  from  any  moon  alone,  without  re- 
gard to  sun? 

But  you  forget,  Paul,  woman  really  represents 
love,  and  that  without  her  there  would  be  neither 
love  nor  compassion  on  earth;  while  as  to  Nations, 
Kyd's  suggestion  of  the  Saxon  race  and  Saxon  son, 
as  being  illustrative  of  tenderness  and  compassion 
and  altruism,  is  generally  accepted. 

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Then  how  comes  it,  Apollos,  the  conservative  and 
negative  half  of  life  have  ever  crushed  Ireland  while 
propping  up  her  negative  and  placid  diplomatic 
affinity,  the  Turk?  And  how  comes  it  the  conserva- 
tive or  negative  half  of  life  are  surrounding  the 
Island  of  Crete  and  starving  the  people  of  that 
island?  Look  at  their  conservative  compassion  in 
Cuba,  Apollos,  how  benignly  and  with  what  cold- 
blooded composure  they  altruize  the  people  into 
cities  that  they  may  starve  and  die.  I  tell  you,  sir, 
gold  absorbs  all  atoms,  psychically  and  otherwise, 
into  cities  and  factories  merely  to  starve  and  die  and 
every  Nation  that  has  ever  worshiped  at  her  shrine 
has  worshiped  but  to  die  and  try  again.  That  wo- 
man and  gold  and  wool  and  factories  and  cities  rep- 
resent one  part  of  Truth  and  "sound"  and  Altruism 
and  Love,  we  will  admit,  as  mark  with  what  fond- 
ness they  care  for  their  family,  "protecting"  them, 
bearing  them  in  her  arms,  nursing  them  on  her 
bosom,  soothing  them.  But  it  is  her  own  young  and 
family,  particularly,  Apollos,  and  there  is  little  love 
manifested  anywhere  on  earth,  as  yet,  from  the 
beasts  of  the  field  and  the  fowls  of  the  air  to  the  po- 
litical party  named  conservative  or  Nation  named 
conservative,  for  the  other  side  of  life — the  family 
of  others.  The  word  liberty  to  them  is  repudiation 
when  not  all  on  their  side.  In  Truth,  Apollos,  the 
oxygen  of  life  is  something  of  a  "Jealous  daughter 
of  Judah,"  and  the  positive  side  of  life,  while  pos- 
sessed of  many  weaknesses,  while  being  somewhat 
light  and  ductile  has,  nevertheless,  been  wide  in 
range  and  quite  as  altruistic  and  able  to  note  there 

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are  two  of  us  as  they  are  to  note  each  side  is  merely 
lining  up  with  its  mineral.  And  that  one  side,  the 
Mathematics  of  life,  the  factory  and  City,  in  the  play 
of  the  Universe  has  become  so  puffed  up — has  such  a 
"big  head" — it  fondly  imagines  itself  the  only  God. 
Not  that  we  object  to  woman,  the  only  true  gold  of 
life  in  any  sense,  but  to  anything  other  than 
equality  as  between  man  and  woman  we  object — to 
gold  as  the  only  sound  we  object  and  repudiate,  to 
maneuvering  and  diplomacy  and  adroitness  and  sor- 
cery, which  reads  only  the  maneuverer  is  sound,  the 
open  man  who  gives  and  is  out-maneuvered  because 
he  is  composed  of  hydrogen  and  prefers  to  give,  be- 
ing "unsound"  and  void  of  honor  and  integrity — to 
all  such  sorcery  we  object.  If  Negation  or  Mathe- 
matics must  dominate  the  earth,  as  she  has  encom- 
passed man,  then  let  us  have  the  genuine  true  gold 
as  our  Diplomats  and  adroit  maneuverers;  and  if 
Mathematics  is  to  be  the  advance  agent,  the  pioneer 
who  will  clear  the  forests  "without  the  aid  and  con- 
sent" of  hydrogen  or  silver,  why  the  first  mouse  that 
appears,  my  dear  Apollos,  will  simply  create  a  panic 
on  your  bourse. 

The  Negative  Nation,  boasting  itself  as  the  only 
and  infallible.  The  Negative  political  party  boast- 
ing its  affinities  of  factories  and  gold  as  the  only  and 
infallible.  The  merchant  and  the  farmer  boasting 
round  the  store  fire  of  how  they  absorbed  their  neigh- 
bor. And  the  woman  in  the  circle  of  her  friends 
boasting  of  the  number  of  her  admirers  and  of  how 
she  had  beguiled  them,  are  birds  of  the  same  feather, 
and  their  name  is  "gravity,  the  greatest  of  discover- 

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ies";  but  those  who  are  in  touch  with  the  world  as 
a  whole  at  this  present  time  realize  there  must  be  a 
prodigal  (giver)  for  every  one  of  these  receivers,  and 
they  are  also  noting  that  hydrogenic  Nations  and 
political  parties  and  individuals  are  up  in  arms  on 
two  Hemispheres  at  this  absorbent  greed,  as  that  it 
is  a  battle  royal,  a  battle  of  the  elements  now  no- 
ticeable in  the  earth  and  air,  as  well  as  among  the 
Nations.  A  battle  of  the  elements  of  heat  versus 
cold,  with  the  Truth  resting  in  the  even  balance,  as 
Electricity.  Not  that  we  insinuate  all  are  alike  as 
promiscuous  as  England,  Heaven  forbid!  for  as  no 
two  stars  in  the  firmament  are  alike  in  glory,  neither 
are  any  two  oxygenic  colors  or  gases  or  atoms  alike, 
although  they  are  the  counterparts  of  hydrogenic 
blue  and  purple  of  all  life.  And  just  as  Nations  and 
individuals  tuned  to  the  hydrogenic  harmony  are, 
as  the  rays  of  day,  becoming  more  and  more  refrac- 
tory, as  the  contraction  proceeds,  so  likewise  we 
will  find  it  in  the  animal  life.  They,  too,  will  become 
refractory  and  obstinate  and  stiff-necked,  for  the 
elements  of  Heaven,  as  well  as  the  elements  on  earth, 
are  evidently  at  war;  and  the  arch  fiend  of  selfish 
greed  (money),  knowing  well  this  innings  is  his  last, 
with  only  one  more  wicket  to  fall,  will  do  his  best  to 
throw  a  volume  of  water  at  the  new  birth — a  volume 
of  water  and  mud,  however,  which  the  earth  will 
merely  swallow  up. 

Humph!  Mere  "generalizing''  and  evanescent 
vaguery,  void  of  facts,  not  a  single  figure  to  back  the 
assertions  or  foundation  to  build  upon.  All  in  the 
hydrogenic  air,  as  usual,  what  Gladden  would  term 

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"fifth  Century  imagination,"  and  ludicrous  in  the 
light  of  this  ''Scientific  Age.^^  And  then  the  Mil- 
lenial,  I  presume. 

Yes,  you  forget  1900  is  the  Millenial,  Apollos; 
however,  you  brush  that  fact  aside  as  you  do  the  sug- 
gestion there  are  two  of  us,  and  that  one  cannot  live 
without  the  other.  What  sort  of  a  figure  would  Eng- 
land make  without  her  Celtic  Colonies?  What  sort 
of  a  figure  would  the  East  make  without  the  West 
and  South? 

The  same  sort  of  a  figure,  Apollos,  that  woman 
would  without  man,  or  gold  would  w  ithout  silver  — 
contract,  wither  up,  die.  Sneer  at  the  Millenial,  Apol- 
los, as  you  will,  but  the  elements  will  remind  you, 
from  time  to  time,  of  its  approach  —  'Hhe  handwriting 
is  there  upon  the  walV  As  to  Gladden^s  ''Scientific  Age,'^ 
the  science  of  the  day  and  hour  and  age,  Electricity  tells 
us  the  Bible,  from  Genesis  to  Revelations,  is  written 
in  the  language  of  Electrical  Philosophy  and  in  an 
Allegory  which  Negation,  by  very  Nature,  detests 
and  will  refuse  to  recognize,  as  the  liberal  man  will 
pass  details  and  figures  as  uninteresting  and  dull. 

But  you  forget,  my  dear  Paul,  the  age  of  positive 
and  negative  Philosophy  died  with  Greece  some  thou- 
sand years  ago,  w4th  all  its  cycles  and  its  planes 
and  its  mineral  aflfinities  and  theories.  This  is  an 
age  of  peaceful  industry  and  practical  business  life. 
Of  morality  and  humanity  and  mathematics.  Now 
take  the  Turk,  for  instance,  whom  you  liberals  ever 
abuse.  Investigations  prove  conclusively  the  Chris- 
tian Greeks  are  ever  the  first  to  stir  up  a  dust  and 
create  agitation.     The  Conservatives  fortunately  are 


in  power  at  present  and  have  been  able  to  sit  down 
on  this  gunpowder  and  disturber  of  the  peace,  and 
while  public  sentiment  for  a  time  favors  Greece,  the 
calm  sound  and  reliable  elements  in  the  land,  as  in 
the  Venezuelan  trouble,  will  eventually  prevail,  as 
they  have  ever  done.  This  is  an  age  of  peace  and  in- 
dustry and  conservative  methods,  my  dear  fellow, 
and  of  arbitration,  and  the  days  of  the  brigand  and 
gunpowder  and  daring  highway  robbers  are  gone. 
The  Greeks  and  Celts  have  ever  been  unreliable. 
"Beware  of  the  Greeks  bearing  gifts." 

Ah,  yes,  my  dear  cold-hearted  brother,  "Beware 
of  the  Greeks  bearing  gifts,"  but  you  know  very  well 
the  Eoman  Saxon  son  never  was  the  bearer  of  gifts. 
Could  not  bear  gifts  gracefully  if  he  wanted  to,  be- 
cause he  has  been  the  "receiver"  ever  of  those  gifts. 
An  age  of  Morality!  Yes,  the  fleets  of  Conservative 
Apollos  blockading  little  Crete  lest  the  inhabitants 
secure  any  food  to  eat.  Conquering  them  by  starva- 
tion —  the  fleet  of  America  aiding  in  the  same  cold- 
blooded work  in  Cuba.  Yes,  a  wonderfully  moral 
age  of  gorged  divorce  courts,  of  Negations,  Contrac- 
tion —  of  Negation,  cruel  ever  to  his  brother.  But 
your  innings  is  nearly  over,  Apollos,  and  since  every 
atom  on  earth  has  its  counterpart  for  every  silver  son 
you  destroy,  you  destroy  the  Psychical  life  current  of 
his  counterpart,  your  own  body.  As  to  the  Philoso- 
phy of  Cycles  and  planes  and  affinities  that  died  some 
two  thousand  years  ago,  we  are  merely  beginning  to 
arrive  with  the  Cycle  of  time  at  a  point  in  civilization 
passed  by  former  races  in  former  Cycles  of  time,  since 
methinks  to  open  our  eyes  and  observe  Cycles  cours- 

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ing  along  and  whizzing  through  the  air  in  straight 
lines,  at  times,  may  be  evidence  of  a  fact  we  are 
only  beginning  to  understand  what  Cycles  meant, 
and  methinks  the  study  of  Electricity,  not  for  what 
we  can  pocket  by  it,  but  with  a  view  to  learning  what 
it  is  and  of  what  composed,  may  inform  us  we  are 
only  beginning  to  realize  what  Electrical  planes 
meant,  and  politics  is  certainly  an  evidence  of  how  a 
man  will  line  up  with  his  mineral  or  affinity  or  point 
of  view;  but  wait  until  the  Nations  begin  to  line  up, 
Apollos,  as  Nations,  not  as  Conservatives,  and  you 
may  find  there  is  nothing  in  this  world  yet,  other 
than  Eoman,  that  is  not  Greek  in  tone.  We  have  had 
many  and  various  names  for  our  cereals,  but  they  are 
all  either  dominated  by  too  much  hydrogen  or  silver 
or  by  too  much  oxygen  or  gold  properties.  We  have 
had  many  and  various  breeds  of  poultry  and  cattle, 
even,  but,  after  all,  there  is  the  active  breed  versus 
the  passive  breed.  The  one  is  too  nervous  and  prodi- 
gal, the  other  too  dull  and  much  of  a  pig.  So  that 
neither  alone,  my  dear  Apollos,  is  the  only  "sound,'' 
and  as  long  as  you  fill  the  air  with  more  of  one  min- 
eral than  you  do  with  another,  we  are  likely  to  be  out 
of  tune  and  to  line  up  with  opposite  points  of  view, 
while  to  charge  the  air  mth  negative  only  of  density  and 
shutting  up  the  positive  life  and  mercurial  currents  on  two 
Hemispheres,  will  simply  mean  earthquakes  in  Terrestrial 
bodies  and  atoms,  earthquakes  in  national  bodies,  earth- 
quakes in  individual  bodies,  and  contraction  which,  of 
course,  means  dissolution  and  death.  The  hour  of  dark- 
ness before  the  dawning  day. 

And  when  are  all  these  calamities  to  reach  us, 

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Paul?  I  thought  Electricity  was  the  lightning's 
flash  that,  like  thought,  could  span  a  Continent  in 
the  twinkling  of  an  eye.  We  are  anxious  to  see  some 
of  these  signs  and  wonders  and  calamities  that  ap- 
peal so  much  to  your  warmth.  And  I  say,  Paul,  when 
did  you  begin  to  pose  as  a  Prophet  after  the  order  of 
Melchizedek  while  being  averse  to  peace  and  arbitra- 
tion? And  Paul,  how  much  longer  are  you  to  be  in 
learning  the  gods  on  your  side,  composed  of  positive 
accumulation,  Jewish  tin,  have  ever  sold  you  out  and 
been  responsible  for  your  death? 

Arbitration,  yes,  Apollos,  and  Venezuela;  but 
that  was  a  liberal  triumph  for  the  prodigal  Continent 
frowning;  no,  that  was  the  end  of  Venezuelan  ab- 
sorption. Those  seeking  peace  in  sincerity  will  find 
it,  as  you  know,  in  Bi-Metallism,  in  the  even  balance 
of  territory,  as  well  as  weights  and  measures.  Some 
one  has  been  doing  business  among  the  Nations,  un- 
der the  guise  of  a  Saint,  with  a  false  pair  of  scales, 
and  the  Great  Adjuster  of  weights  and  balances  is 
beginning  to  expose,  not  only  her  shame  but  the  wan- 
ton sorcery  with  which  she  has  beguiled  the  Nations 
and  been  "grinding  down  the  faces  of  the  poor''  upon 
two  Continents.  My  own  body  you  say?  My  own 
counterpart?  Then  if  it  will  not  meet  half  way  in  all 
affairs  of  life  and  will  persist  in  forcing  us  to  bow  for- 
ever at  the  graven  shrine  of  money,  why,  let  it  go. 
There  is  no  Truth  in  such  a  counterpart  or  atom. 

As  to  the  destruction  of  our  power  by  the  more 
absorbent  tin  of  life.  That  alchemy  will  corroborate 
in  connection  with  mineral  atoms,  and  we  are  cer- 
tainly governed  by  the  same  laws  of  heat  and  cold, 

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action  and  reaction.  As  for  calamities,  why,  my 
dear  Apollos,  they  are  with  us  now.  Set  your  mathe- 
matical brain  and  factory  in  motion,  Apollos,  and 
figure  out  the  natural  result  of  the  contraction  al- 
ready with  us  and  your  conclusions  will  bear  me  out. 
Twenty-five  per  cent,  of  values  on  the  tax  dupli- 
cate by  contraction  is  cutting  down  one-fourth  of 
the  weeds  of  life  also.  Since  contraction  of  atoms 
includes  human  atoms,  we  must  remember.  For  one 
who  is  such  a  stickler  for  laws  (to  suit  negation)  it  is 
a  pity  you  fell  out  with  Nature's  laws,  Apollos.  But 
you  are  going  to  learn,  my  dear  brother,  there  are 
Terrestrial  laws  —  laws  governed  by  higher  Nature, 
as  well  as  laws  framed  to  suit  Monopoly  or  lower 
Nature. 

Terrestrial  rant  and  rubbish,  Paul.  Why,  you 
are  getting  to  be  a  "silver  crank,"  and  really  not  in 
any  condition  to  be  about. 

Apollos  I  Do  you  remember  what  Negation  said 
of  General  Sherman  when  he  demanded  half  a  mil- 
lion men  to  crush  at  once  the  rising  South?  Did 
they  not  say  the  man  was  mad,  had  lost  his  senses, 
"don't  you  know,"  and  should  be  removed?  Yes. 
Well,  my  dear  Apollos,  you  are  simply  the  same  nega- 
tive half  of  life,  and  as  unable  now  to  anticipate  what 
is  coming  as  you  were  then. 

General  Sherman  was  the  sharp  of  life.  John 
Sherman  is  the  flat  of  life.  The  one  was  volatile  and 
fast  and  warm,  the  other  is  diplomatic  and  slow  and 
cold.  The  one  detested  diplomacy,  the  other  detests 
war.  Splendid  specimens  of  the  positive  and  nega 
tive  man  in  life.     Splendid  specimens  of  propulsion 

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and  absorption.  The  one  will  be  remembered  for  his 
boldness  and  daring  in  cutting  the  wires  leading  to 
diplomacy  and  marching  to  the  Sea.  The  other  will 
be  remembered  as  one  who  formed  and  fashioned, 
yes,  and  brought,  the  Koman  Saxon  golden  and  ab- 
sorbent Calf  of  contraction  here  to  America.  And 
yet  to  Conservatives  John  Sherman  will  seem  the 
better  man,  and  to  Liberals  General  Sherman  will 
seem  the  better  man.  But,  strictly  speaking,  from 
a  spiritual  or  electrical  point  of  view,  one  is  as  good 
as  the  other  —  the  one  being  merely  the  reverse  pro- 
cess of  the  other.  If  you  would  care  to  know,  Apol- 
los,  the  gift  of  seeing  ourselves  as  others  see  us  is 
simply  to  be  Bi-Metallic,  to  weigh  our  arguments,  to 
balance  them  in  an  effort  to  reach  Truth. 

You  have  offered  so  many  fantastic  ideas,  Paul, 
it  is  no  easy  matter  to  keep  up  with  you.  There  is 
one  suggestion  your  counterparts  or  opposites  of  life 
has  opened  up  to  me,  however,  in  connection  with  the 
Bible  and  I  am  really  more  glad  than  otherwise  we 
met  this  evening.  The  Bible  seemed  often  to  be  con- 
tradictory, favoring  first  one  side  and  then  the  other. 
But  since  it  is  evident  our  points  of  view  really  are 
diametrically  opposite,  and  since  each  finds  encour- 
agement there,  the  Bible  certainly  comes  to  me  now 
with  a  greater  light,  and  while  doing  my  best,  na^* 
turally,  to  look  at  the  bright  side  of  affairs,  now  that 
our  party  is  in  control,  it  does  begin  to  appear  we 
may  be  on  the  eve  of  a  decided  change  in  our  indus- 
trial affairs.  If  we  sit  down  and  face,  mathematic- 
ally, the  present  situation,  taking  the  army  of  sev- 
enty million  bodies  as  our  own,  allow  for  a  shrink- 

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age  of  25  per  cent.,  already  manifest  in  taxes  and 
values,  the  amount  of  real  estate  accumulating  in 
the  hands  of  the  sheriff,  the  natural  result  of  contrac- 
tion by  floods  and  wars  and  the  season's  disasters  in 
the  West  and  South,  which,  in  its  turn,  will  be  felt 
by  the  railroads  and  cities,  necessitating  reductions 
in  wages  and  strikes  at  a  time  when  agitation  and 
disturbance  seem  in  the  air — these  alone,  with  the 
corresponding  lack  of  confidence,  are  evidence  of 
times  of  travail  that  must  be  met ;  and  while  flouting 
your  suggestions  of  returning  to  a  paternal  form  of 
government  again,  in  the  interest  of  the  unemployed, 
we  have  really  accepted  your  suggestion  in  our  effort 
to  tax  the  people  for  the  benefit  of  the  unemployed. 
That  negative  atoms  destroy  and  poison  other  nega- 
tive atoms  we  may  admit,  and  that  the  contraction  is 
cutting  in  both  directions  we  will  also  have  to  own, 
with  cities  and  city  life  and  factories  and  mines,  the 
mathematical  affinities  in  the  play  of  the  Universe, 
evidently  the  greater  sufferer.     We  may  also  own 
that  mercury,  in  harmony  with  its  opposite,  would, 
as  lightning  or  electricity,  purify  the  air;  but  I  am 
not  satisfied,  and  doubt  the  suggestion,  that  travail 
and  dread  disease  is  in  the  air  we  breathe  and  feed 
upon  now  as  a  result  of  ceasing  to  coin  silver,  al- 
though admitting  mercury  assists  in  purification. 
As  to  the  suggestion.  Negative  atoms  create  discord 
and  that  it  would  apply  to  Nations,  England,  in  her 
relations  with  India,  Eussia,  China  or  Mexico,  we 
must  admit  can  only  dictate  the  price  one  way,  since 
silver  goods  are  high  and  they  hold  each  other  level; 
while  England,  in  her  relations  with  America  and 

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other  countries  where  gold  is  the  standard  of  value 
and  basis  of  exchange,  will,  by  virtue  of  her  monop- 
oly of  commerce,  incline  to  dictate  the  value  of 
everything  each  way,  just  as  the  store  does  the 
American  producer.  We  will  also  have  to  admit  a 
strong  argument  in  favor  of  coining  the  metals  side  by 
side  in  France,  That  it  has,  since  in  part  adopted,  kept 
the  family  and  increase  at  a  nominal  rate  and  afforded 
the  land  owner  a  chance  in  life.  If  you  will  only  give 
us  time,  however,  International  Bi-Metallism  will 
come  as  a  result  of  our  efforts.  Monopoly  dominates 
all  life  in  Nature,  Paul,  and,  in  a  sense,  seems  to  have 
been  foreordained,  since  it  has  ever  crowded  out  the 
other  part  to  new  fields  and,  therefore,  been  respon- 
sible for  reaching  earth's  ends.  It  is  a  well-known 
fact  a  conservative  man  will  avoid  liberal  men  if  they 
are  too  much  in  evidence,  and  the  reverse  would 
hold,  if  true,  while  we  all  know  a  liberal  man  does 
love  to  Pioneer.  Moreover  the  silver  men  and  Na- 
tions, when  in  Monopoly,  crowd  out,  by  war  or  vio- 
lence, the  conservative  half,  as  witness  Mexico  and 
Cuba  with  Spain,  or  Russia  with  their  accumulative 
Jew,  as  you  term  it;  while,  on  the  other  side,  Eng- 
land and  Germany,  since  gold  was  in  control,  have 
quietly  crowded  out  their  Celts.  I  am  also  prepared 
to  admit  gold  and  negation  favor  or  represent,  some- 
what, contraction  as  an  atom,  an  individual  or  a 
Nation,  but  prodigality  and  inflation  has  had  every- 
thing up  so  high  we  must  reach  the  ground  at  times 
in  order  to  take  breath.  If  you  will  only  keep  calm 
and  quiet  and  not  create  a  disturbance  Bi-Metallism 
will  come  that  much  sooner,  Paul. 


But,  my  placid  brother,  can  you  keep  a  people 
down  when  the  very  elements  are  at  war  within 
them?  Why  trifle  with  their  impatience?  When 
Paul  does  not  come  to  town,  Apollos  himself  will 
do  the  growling,  you  will  find.  Why  shirk  the 
money  question?  Why  persist  in  flouting  and 
scolding  your  brother?  You  are  the  conserva- 
tive Apollos.  The  liberal  half  of  life  have  ever 
been  "the  lambs,'^  electrically  speaking,  whom 
you  have  fleeced.  Are  you  so  dull  as  to  imagine 
"Confidence,"  which  rests  between  the  silver  and  the 
gold,  is  going  to  be  found  by  flouts  and  adjectives, 
instead  of  by  Mathematics  and  Analysis?  Can  you 
not  see  every  flout  and  every  day  of  golden  cold 
merely  means  an  extra  nail  in  the  cofiin  of  your  Neg- 
ative Cities,  merely  increases  lack  of  confidence? 
Why  not  face  the  situation  with  analysis  instead  of 
manufacturing,  by  your  venom,  silver  gunpowder 
that  will  rend  your  body  Terrestrial,  National  and 
individual,  from  sea  to  sea? 

Do  you  desire  to  emulate  Pharaoh  with  Israel? 
Don  you  expect  us  to  manufacture  brick  without 
heat?  Expect  confidence  without  the  mercury  of 
life?  That  is  certainly  the  electrical  solution  or  sug- 
gestion of  your  policy  of  shutting  up  the  mercury  of 
life;  and  not  only  does  it  mean  dread  disease  in  our 
air,  but  it  means  that  your  first  born  too  will  feel  it, 
for  this  is  silver  versus  gold,  or  father  versus  son — 
"a  Father  rending  his  own  arm."  The  true  gold  of 
all,  however,  like  the  prodigal,  has  ever  been  left, 
as  a  rule,  to  fight  it  out  alone,  since  gold  was  in  con- 
trol, for  the  prodigal  who  hustles  and  moves  to  a  far 

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country  leaves  his  counterpart  invariably  behind. 
The  iron,  or  negative,  or  conservative  man,  by  a  na- 
tural affinity,  is  wedded  to  the  silver  eagle  of  life. 
But  the  lion — the  prodigaPs  true  mate,  the  only  true 
gold,  as  a  National  body  or  individual  body — it  begins 
to  seem  may  yet  have  her  heart's  desire,  for  Bi-Me- 
tallism  will  certainly  level  all  balances  and  bring 
each  counterpart  face  to  face.     But  I  would  prefer 
to  be  a  gold  man,  Paul.     I  hardly  like  the  idea  of 
being  neither  the  one  nor  the  other,  a  sort  of  strad- 
dler  or  two-faced  being;  and  yet,  as  you  suggest,  the 
perfect  man  or  Truth  had  four  in  Ezekiel.     True,  the 
perfect  man  would  be  in  harmony  with  the  elements 
and  could  then  destroy  a  city  or  an  army  at  will. 
"How  could  one  chase  a  thousand  and  two,  put  ten 
thousand  to  flight,  unless  their  rock  had  sold  them 
and  the  Lord  had  shut  them  up,''  is  somewhat  sug- 
gestive of  these  very  times  and  of  Bi-Metallism,  or 
Electricity,  and  it  would  certainly  put  an  end  to  war, 
while,  no  doubt,  as  we  near  the  even  balance  we  will 
be  able  to  see  ourselves  as  others  see  us,  but  it  is  go- 
ing to  be  as  difficult  for  us,  as  conservative,  to  be  the 
advance  agent  and  prodigal  part  as  it  is  going  to  be 
for  you  to  play  and  act  the  receptive  part.     Yes,  I 
can  see  how  cross  and  surly  we  are  likely  to  be,  as 
individuals  and  Nations,  with  each  other  as  a  result 
of  being  out  of  tune.     But  I  say,  Paul,  if  there  is  any 
Truth  in  what  you  suggest  that,  as  is  the  individual 
atom  so  will  be  the  human,  political,  social,  National 
and  Terrestrial  atom,  with  the  reverse  holding,  and 
we  do  find  them  out  of  tune,  why,  my  dear  fellow, 
according  to  your  Philosophy  of  Electricity,  when 

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we  go  to  the  gold  mines  and  silver  mines  for  the  pre- 
cious treasures  of  the  earth,  we  will  find  the  silveu 
mines  in  flames  by  contraction  and  the  gold  mines 
turning  either  to  moisture  or  ice  and  in  a  state  of 
chaos  also,  by  contraction.     And  we  may  expect  to 
find  a  silver  or  positive  continent  as  an  atom  and 
agriculture  in  a  state  of  fire,  and  the  sword  and  a 
Negative  or  Conservative  Continent  and  Cities  gen- 
erally, in  the  play  of  the  Universe,  in  a  state  of  pesti- 
lence and  famine,  with  the  walls  broken  and  the 
vitality  departing.     And  if  the  Truth  of  this  Uni- 
verse is  a  current  and  counter-current,  why,  Paul, 
this  Continent  and  Nation  and  our  Cities,  individual 
and  otherwise,  would  be  receiving  all  this  contrac- 
tion in  turn.     That  might  have  been  under  the  rule  of 
"pyrotechnics,'^  but  not  under  the  rule  of  Mathe- 
matics and  law.     International  law.     And  if  the 
Truth  of  this  Universe  is  Electricity  or  Nitrogen,  as 
Spirit  and  Bi-Metallism  means  the  coming  of  the 
Nitrogen,  we  may  expect  to  see  all  Oxygenic  matter 
and  water,  like  an  atom  of  gold  or  clay  in  the  furnace, 
change  from  an  olive  tinge  to  that  of  orange,  thence, 
in  its  exposure  to  the  furnace  of  your  earth's  com- 
pressed  warmth,   or   Nitrogen,   to    red.     Ah,   yes; 
sounds  quite  like  the  Millenial  and  "that  last  sunset 
when  the  stars  shall  fall,"  but  we  will  hardly  believe 
it  yet,  Paul,  believe  our  fleets  or  waters  will  contract. 
Very  likely  not,  Apollos;  hut  you  forget  1900  is  the 
Millenial.     The   Tri-Millenial.     The   beginning   of   the 
third  cycle  of  time,  when,  hy  every  Natural,  Electrical  and 
Mathematical  law,  a  new  development  or  birth  may 
be  expected  in  the  harmony  of  the  Silver  Cycle  with 

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the  Gold.  You  also  forget,  in  your  reference  to  "that 
last  sunset/'  etc.,  the  year  1900  will  witness  the  great- 
est fall  of  stars  and  fire  our  earth  has  ever  encoun- 
tered. And  what  does  earth  mean  if  not  our  individual 
body  as  well  as  Terrestrial  body?  These  are  Mathe- 
matical facts,  Apollos,  you  cannot  brush  aside  with 
a  "flout."  The  handwriting  is  there  "upon  the  wall,'' 
scold  as  you  will.  If  you  will  send  a  sepecial  mes- 
senger after  your  own  heart,  my  dear  brother,  to 
Spencer,  of  England;  Edison,  of  New  York,  and 
Langley,  of  the  Smithsonian,  calling  in  your  ablest 
Alchemist  and  your  Philosopher  of  light,  you  may 
be  surprised  to  learn  the  atom  of  silver  and  the  atom 
of  gold  not  only  tell  the  story  of  heat  and  cold,  hydro- 
gen and  oxygen,  but  that  the  story  of  the  Heavens, 
as  known  to  an  elderly  Celtic  woman,  handed  down 
from  generation  to  generation,  is  quite  as  near  the 
Truth  of  this  Universe  of  ours  as  the  wisdom  of  our 
Mathematical  men  in  figuring  the  distance  of 
Heavenly  bodies  through  a  reflecting  glass,  such  as 
the  moisture  and  the  ether  of  the  Heavens  may  be. 
As  to  "that  last  sunset,"  also,  we  may  note  first, 
what  you  cannot  get  away  from,  that  the  sun  is  even 
now  clouded  and  spotted  and  refractory,  and  that 
on  two  Hemispheres  simultaneously  the  liberal  or 
sunshine  of  life  are  retiring  to  their  tents,  contract- 
ing and  becoming  compressed  and  refractory,  while 
we  have  the  most  promising  of  all  "signs  and  won- 
ders," the  conservative  half  of  life,  the  party  of  dark- 
ness and  night  are  turning  to  the  party  of  day.  To 
brush  these  facts  aside,  Apollos,  with  a  sneer  may 
suit  you  when  "talking  politics,"  but  they  will  be, 


and  are,  beside  you  continually  in  your  sober  mo- 
ments. 

But  think  of  the  contraction,  Paul,  the  "savage 
butchery"  of  it  all.  It  is  a  bitter  pill ;  yes,  bitter  to 
the  taste,  this  Truth  of  yours,  and  really,  now  I  am 
hardly  ready  yet  to  accept  it,  although  admitting 
there  is  more  in  Bi-Metallism  than  has  been  realized. 

Believe  it,  my  doubting  Thomas,  Apollos,  no,  of 
course  you  will  not,  and  as  to  the  contraction  and 
"savage  butchery,"  it  is  a  pity  you  did  not  think  of 
that  before  bringing  to  us  your  Golden  Molten  Calf 
of  absorbent  Monopoly  and  greed.  Believe  a  Truth 
that  is  a  retributive  Justice?  No,  you  desire  to  do 
the  butchering  and  starving  to  death  yourself,  Mr. 
Cold  Blood,  in  Crete  and  Cuba,  and  by  absorbing  our 
life  into  your  cities  to  starve,  and  think  that  part  of 
it  quite  the  proper  thing,  but  a  God  who  rests  in  the 
Center  and  metes  out  Justice  to  both,  why,  such  a 
God  is  a  savage  God.  Yes,  we  understand,  Mr.  Ne- 
gation, but  for  every  son  and  silver  woman  and  child 
you  destroy,  my  dear  Contractor,  you  merely  cut  off, 
the  life  current  of  their  counterparts,  since  man,  it  is 
being  demonstrated  by  Electrical  Philosophy,  does 
not  live  by  any  means  on  bread  alone,  but  is  fed 
Psychically  while  asleep.  We  fight  our  weaker  part 
in  fighting  you.  McKinley  and  Hanna  fight  their 
weaker  part,  the  Thurstons  and  Forakers  of  life,  in 
fighting  the  silver  side.  As  the  silver  men,  in  fight- 
ing McKinley  and  Hanna,  are  fighting  their  conserva- 
tive Gormans  and  Hills  and  Whitneys.  And  you 
will  observe  it  may  also  apply  to  Nations,  since  Eng- 
land, in  fighting  the  volatile  France  or  Kussia,  merely 

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fight  the  weaker  part  of  their  own  body  —  the  silver 
Celt  of  life.  As  Prussia,  in  fighting  England,  would 
be  fighting  his  German  part  of  life.  The  reference 
to  music  may  also  hold  in  life,  individual  and  na- 
tional, since  what  is  flat  in  one  harmony  may  be  the 
sharp  in  another.  England's  prodigal  son  in  Africa 
would  really  be  the  silver  pioneer  part,  while  Prus- 
sia's Eoman  son  would  be  the  Boer,  too  slow  with  his 
reforms  again.  All  know  France  pioneered  it  in 
Suez  and  Egypt,  but  Apollos  received  it  as  usual. 

It  does  begin  to  seem  we  are  fighting  our  own  life, 
as  individuals  and  nations,  in  fighting  each  other, 
and  going  to  the  grave  as  a  result  of  our  greed  some- 
what. That  part  I  will  admit,  and  Electricity,  as 
the  Philosophy  of  Nitrogen,  of  that  which  rests  in  the 
even  balance  between  affirmative  and  negative, 
would  apply  to  every  argument  and  be  the  Truth,  in 
a  manner,  of  every  subject.  Yes,  we  will  have  to  ad- 
mit the  metals  are  the  Philosophy  of  color  and  the 
philosophy  of  Music  the  Notes  inflating  as  they  de- 
scend the  scale,  expanding  as  they  are  strengthened 
and  fed  by  gold  or  cold,  and  at  the  other  end  of  the 
scale  the  reverse  process  the  notes  contracting  and 
being  purified  as  they  ascend  the  scale. 

They  are  also  the  philosophy  of  clays,  it  would 
seem,  which,  like  negative  minerals  and  colors,  are 
purified  by  contraction  in  the  furnace  of  heat.  But, 
my  dear  Paul,  you  will  have  to  confess  Ck)ntraction 
does  purge  us  of  our  dross  and  tin,  and  you  will  have 
to  admit  that  contraction  of  life,  even,  is  necessary 
from  time  to  time. 

True,  Apollos,  I  do  admit  it.     Admit  we  have  ever 

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been  too  prodigal  in  all  things;  but  you  must  not 
growl  and  marl,  Apollos,  when  Contraction  cuts  your 
side,  including  cities,  territory  and  life,  and  must  not 
blaspheme  a  God  and  Justice  that  is  a  retributive  Jus- 
tice and  whose  sword  is  a  two-edged  sword. 

True  somewhat,  Paul,  and  it  is  evident  Blaine's 
Keciprocitj  and  Pan-American  conception  was  the 
same  Principle  of  an  even  balance  —  a  current  and 
counter-current,  as  Bi-Metallism  would  suggest. 
And  that,  in  fighting  the  silver  of  life,  we  not  only 
combat  part  of  ourselves  as  individual  atoms,  polit- 
ical atoms,  and  national  atoms,  but  that  it  will  apply 
to  Terrestrial  atoms,  for  the  Great  South  American 
Republics  are  of  silver  tone,  we  must  admit,  and  there 
seems  no  reason  why  Blaine's  Pan-American  con- 
ception, as  the  Destiny  of  his  Nation,  should  not  be 
carried  out  at  this  time  and  the  Hemisphere,  includ- 
ing Canada,  combine  in  Harmony  as  one  great  Bi- 
Metallic  whole. 

We  will  also  have  to  own,  Paul,  Gold  has  favored 
the  growth  of  cities  and  negative  affinities,  absorb- 
ing the  rural  districts,  as  that  in  the  contraction,  as 
the  rural  districts  and  interests  are  cared  for  by  Justice^ 
it  will  be  at  the  expense  of  oxygen  gold  or  cities  gen- 
erally. In  short,  Paul,  the  city  and  gold  can  only 
profit  and  increase  at  the  expense  of  the  country  and 
silver,  and  the  reverse  must  hold.  When  Agricul- 
ture begins  to  increase  in  value  it  will  be  at  our  ex- 
pense. 

Exactly,  Apollos,  but  your  ideas  of  an  even  bal- 
ance heretofore  have  been  as  your  conception  of  Tem- 
perance —  and  all  on  one  infallible  negative  side. 

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But  we  are  all  likely  soon  to  learn  it  takes  both  par- 
ties to  reach  Ccmfidence  and  that  either  alone  never 
has  and  never  can,  "v^ithout  the  aid  and  consent"  of 
the  other  half,  or  the  Justice  or  Truth  or  Conscience 
(for  I  take  it  they  are  one),  which  rests  between  the 
two  and  within  ourselves  as  atoms  individual  and 
continental.  Yes  we  are  in  for  it,  both  of  us,  Apol- 
los.  The  peach  bud  blighted  in  the  early  fall  will 
cling  to  its  branch  throughout  the  winter  months, 
but  with  the  flood  of  Nitric  life  and  light  that  comes 
on  the  Odylic  Spring,  it  drops,  yes  dead  upon  the 
ground,  to  be  taken  up  as  food  by  the  parent  stem; 
and  what  are  we  but  buds  upon  a  parent  tree,  who 
must  be  Bi-Metallic  in  our  tone  and  proof  against 
the  flood  of  Nitric  fire  and  flood  of  stars  our  earth 
(which,  of  course,  is  our  body  also)  encounters  in  1900 
the  Tri-Millenial? 

But  we  know  all  about  stars  and  meteors,  Paul. 

Ah,  yes;  do  we?  Ask  Oamille  Flamarion,  who  is 
likely  to  know,  and  you  may  be  surprised  at  the  an- 
swer. You  hear  sound  and  harmonies,  but,  tested 
by  your  mathematics,  the  Truth  of  sound,  you  must 
admit,  is  that  which  is  void.  So,  likewise,  with  Color 
and  Vision;  by  greed  we  have  separated  color  into 
a  positive  color  and  negative  color,  while  mathemat- 
ics demonstrates  Truth  there  is  also  opaque.  Ah, 
yes,  we  are  seeing  Sun,  Moon  and  Stars  simply  be- 
cause Nitrogen  radiating  through  all,  casts  their 
shadow  in  the  ether  of  the  Heavens.  "In  them  hath 
he  set  a  Tabernacle  for  the  Sun,"  is  as  true  of  to-day 
as  it  ever  was,  Apollos ;  and  if  you  have  any  wise  men 
left  other  than  Negation,  it  might  be  well  to  consult 

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them.  Send  a  special  messenger,  my  dear  Brother, 
to  Langley,  of  the  Smithsonian,  asking  as  to  the 
luminous  and  photogenic  matter  of  the  human  being 
as  an  atom  and  you  might  be  also  surprised  to  learn 
the  human  body  or  brain  is  composed  of  both  positive 
and  negative,  just  as  a  grain  of  maise,  if  dissected 
carefully,  will  prove  to  be  both  positive  and  negative. 
That  stars  are  falling  from  time  to  time,  my  dear 
brother,  is  true  and  so,  by  wars  at  stated  intervals  of 
time,  have  human  lights  been  going  out 

Paul,  I  must  admit  it  bitter  to  the  taste.  When 
you  get  after  me  and  see  my  weak  points  of  contrac- 
tion or  the  mote  in  my  eye,  I  resort  to  "creating  feel- 
ing," detesting  a  Truth  of  myself,  forgetting  that,  in 
discussing  the  demagogic  and  inflating  sunbeam  in 
your  eye,  I  am  creating  the  same  kind  of  feeling. 
Yes,  it  is  somewhat  bitter  to  the  taste  to  learn  there 
is  little  Truth  in  us,  as  presently  constituted,  and  that 
we,  as  the  conservative  half  of  the  world,  are  not  in- 
fallible, but  the  mathematical  part  of  Truth  only. 

Can  you  demonstrate  to  me,  in  a  practical  sense, 
the  Philosophy  of  Electricity  or  Nitrogen  as  the 
Higher  Nature  of  all  life,  Paul?  And  why  it  is  Elec- 
tricity, as  chained  by  man,  has  to  be  so  contiually 
fed? 

That,  Apollos,  would  indeed  be  a  task  fit  for  the 
gods.  The  same  sun,  however,  which  will  volatilize 
all  silver  life  into  mercurial  ether,  and  moon  that  will 
volatilize  all  gold  life  into  space  is  the  reason  all 
atoms  meet  death  and  have  to  be  renewed.  Conquer 
sun  and  moon,  Apollos,  and  you  have  conquered 
death.     Look  now  at  the  Cycle  dominated  by  Monop- 

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oly  and  we  will  suggest  such  a  Cycle  as  we  used  in  a 
material  sense  only  a  year  or  two  ago.  The  front 
wheel  was  large  and  the  hind  wheel  was  small,  and 
they  were  out  of  balance,  dominated  by  Monopoly. 
This  wheel  we  will  designate  as  +  in  the  play  of  the 
Universe.  Reverse  the  process,  however,  and  we 
simply  have  a  Cycle  which  we  designate  — .  Or,  as 
another  illustration,  examine  the  anatomy  of  the  hu- 
man brain,  especially  of  the  forehead,  and  you  will 
find  the  third  eye  of  half  the  men  diametrically  oppo- 
site the  reverse  process  of  each  other.  The  same  will 
also  apply  to  woman,  in  a  sense.  One-half  of  each 
are  "bond,''  the  other  half  are  "free."  Those  who  are 
free  and  open,  possessing  the  Greek  frontlet,  are 
formed  as  a  radiator,  we  may  designate  as  +  and  the 
transmitter,  psychically  or  electrically  speaking. 
Those  who  are  bond,  the  reverse  process  and  acting 
as  the  receiver.  — 

If  you  place  these  men  side  by  side,  however,  you 
will  find,  as  by  placing  the  Cycles  side  by  side,  it  is  a 
wheel  within  a  wheel,  or  current  and  counter-current, 
like  the  flowing  and  ebbing  tide.  Whereas,  two  posi- 
tive beings  are  each  anxious  to  do  the  talking,  the 
current  in  each  being  propulsion,  with  the  reverse 
holding  on  the  other  side,  each  current  being  an  ab- 
sorbent. 

This  Philosophy  of  Electricity  seems  not  only  to 
be  the  anatomy  of  an  embryo,  as  any  one  may  note 
who  will  dissect  a  grain  of  maise,  or  any  other  grain, 
carefully,  but  is  undoubtedly  the  electrical  Philoso- 
phy in  allegory  of  Ezekiel,  Chapter  I,  as  it  is  the  Phil- 

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osophy  of  a  Photograph  or  a  bill  created  in  the  Halls 
of  Washington. 

So  that  there  is  little  of  anything  new  under  the 
sun,  Apollos,  and  we  are  merely  arriving  with  the 
Cycle  of  time  at  Electricity  with  its  Cycles  and 
Planes,  material  and  electrical,  as  known  to  Bible 
Philosophy  and  the  Covenant  with  Moses  in  other 
days.  In  for  it!  Yes.  That  representing  the 
country  in  the  play  of  the  Universe,  it  would  now 
seem,  must  be  given  to  the  fire  and  sword.  That  rep- 
resenting Negation  in  the  play  of  the  Universe  must 
also  be  scattered  to  the  winds.  But  there  will  be  a 
fairer  City,  Apollos,  when  the  night  of  life  has  gone, 
and  nothing  will  defile  that  City,  for  Truth  will  be 
the  Light  therein,  and  there  will  be  no  sun  and  moon 
and  no  more  curse  of  a  Monopoly  and  death.  The 
mountain  of  the  Curse  must  he  conquered,  Apollos,  as  we 
near  the  Tri-Millenial  and  the  mountain  of  the  blessings 
with  the  level  scales.  Conservative  Monopoly  in  man 
will  guage  his  brother  by  his  own  graven  idol  of  how 
much  he  can  accumulate,  considering  the  man  who  is 
easy  and  gives  more  than  he  receives,  a  worthless  fel- 
low. We,  as  the  liberal  half  of  life,  heretofore  (the 
worthless  fellow),  guage  a  man  by  his  ability  to  be 
warm-hearted  and  charitable,  considering  the  man 
who  forever  ran  off  with  the  lion's  share  of  the  spoil, 
an  over  accumulator.  Chemically  and  electrically 
speaking,  it  would  seem  we  could  not  be  over-recep- 
tive without  losing  our  originality  of  thought,  and 
could  not,  in  reverse,  be  over-creative  and  original 
without  losing  our  staying  qualities.  A  mathemat- 
ical problem,  wonderfully  arranged  to  reach  the 

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corners  of  the  earth.  But  in  lifting  yourself  up  in 
brigandine,  my  brother,  methinks  the  other  half  of 
life  are  wide  awake  now  to  your  pose.  Yes,  Apollos, 
you  have  upset  the  goose  that  ever  gave  the  golden 
egg.  And  where  will  you  get  your  golden  egg,  Apol- 
los? Money  will  stagnate  and  rot  in  the  bank,  as  by 
shutting  up  the  silver  of  the  earth  it  is  purging  your 
Terrestrial  body  of  a  Continent,  produce  will  stag- 
nate and  rot  and  sour. 

Yes,  railroads  will  stagnate  and  rot  and  human 
beings  will  stagnate  and  rot.  It  is  a  horrible  state 
of  affairs  to  contemplate,  but  it  must  be  faced  as  the 
result  of  your  Contraction,  Apollos.  Silver  inflates, 
expands,  and  is  a  demagogue,  and  all  hydrogen  life 
or  liberal  life  in  Monopoly  are  governed  by  the  same 
law  of  Nature  — heat  inflates,  radiates,  expands; 
gold,  as  its  reverse  process,  merely  contracts  because 
it  represents  cold  and  density.  It  is  winter  now, 
Apollos,  your  winter,  and  you  must  not  growl. 
Meantime  Silver  Paul  should  endeavor  to  be  calm, 
for  it  is  his  harvest  nearing.  As  Apollos  begins  to 
give  his  cold  confidence,  Paul  begins  to  receive  more 
than  he  gives.  They  are  both  out  of  order,  both 
ready  to  fight  at  the  drop  of  a  hat  Yes,  Chaos  and 
Contraction  and  gold  and  cold  is  merely  beginning, 
and  the  golder  it  becomes  the  warmer  silver  atoms 
will  become,  yes,  even  to  Terrestrial  bodies  —  as  they 
are  compressed. 

If  you  will  study  the  Chemical,  Psychical  or  Elec- 
trical Philosohpy  of  heat  and  cold  —  or  silver  and 
gold,  for  they  are  the  same  in  chemical  properties  — 
you  will  find  that  when  the  density  of  air  is  greatly 

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increased  and  its  volume  reduced  by  pressure,  it  be- 
comes intensely  hot,  and  you  will  find  the  reverse 
holding  (as  another  proof  of  counterpart),  for  when 
the  density  of  air  is  decreased,  by  its  volume  being 
expanded,  it  becomes  quite  as  cold.  And  if  you 
knew  the  power  you  are  generating  by  compression 
in  the  silver  half  of  life  —  a  power  which,  when  used 
by  a  mob  or  body  of  men,  has  put  to  flight  a  great 
Continental  Army,  my  dear  brother,  you  would  has- 
ten to  meet  the  questions  of  finance  and  sociology  con- 
fronting the  people  of  the  Hemispheres  at  this  time. 
It  is  astonishing  how  apt  we  are  to  think  our  own 
side  the  only  Truth,  however,  Apollos.  Our  own 
point  of  view,  our  own  graven  image  of  an  idea  as 
Truth.  Your  side  look  at  the  sun  and  think  only  of 
the  graven  gravity  part  the  absorbent  and  receiving 
part.  The  sun  absorbs  moisture  or  the  earth  ab- 
sorbs heat,  but  you  will  never  see  that  while  the  sun 
is  absorbing  moisture  he  is  radiating  and  giving 
more  heat  than  he  receives  moisture  and  goes  to  his 
grave  as  a  consequence.  Likewise  the  night,  the 
mathematical  part  of  day.  You  in  Negation  will 
observe  that  at  night  the  earth  is  gravity  again  and 
absorbs  dew,  never  thinking  the  earth  merely  the 
reverse  process,  this  time  receiving  dew  and  radi- 
ating heat  and  light.  All  lamps  of  life  alive  and 
burning  while  we  sleep.  No,  you  shut  your  eyes  to 
any  giving  current  in  life.  To  give  is  vulgar  and 
undignified,  and  yet  mathematics,  your  own  mathe- 
matics, will  demonstrate  it  is  a  Cycle  of  giving  as 
well  as  receiving — giving,  on  the  one  part,  more  than 
we  receive — receiving,  on  the  other  hand,  more  than 


we  give,  and  chasing  each  other  down  into  and  out  of 
the  grave  as  individuals  and  Nations  as  a  conse- 
quence. But  gravity,  greedy,  graven  gravity,  is  the 
only  Truth  of  this  Universe,  the  "greatest  of  discov- 
eries,'' the  Truth  of  this  Universe.  Monopoly — ^the 
Golden  Molten  Calf,  the  Truth  of  this  Universe.  My 
dear  Apollos,  some  wise  men  are  going  to  have  a  fall 
and  children,  it  seems,  are  going  to  place  them  on 
their  feet. 

Humph!  All  theory.  Nothing  practical  or 
sound.  Never  satisfied  unless  violating  law  with- 
out creating  a  disturbance  and  endeavoring  to  upset 
established  laws  and  facts.  Why,  if  all  the  Pauls 
were  alike,  my  brother,  it  would  be  safe  to  get  to- 
gether powder  and  ball  and  place  the  country  under 
martial  law. 

Certainly,  Apollos,  that  would  be  part  of  your 
program  and  it  would  be  as  natural  for  Mr.  Cold 
Blood  to  herd  women  and  children  into  cities  and 
starve  them  to  death  on  this  side,  as  gold  has  ever 
done,  as  it  is  for  Mr.  Conservative  Cold  Blood  to 
starve  them  in  Europe  and  Cuba,  because,  forsooth, 
silver  and  silver  life  is  cheap  and  worthless  and  vul- 
gar and  must  be  punished  for  daring  to  remind  the 
other  half  their  promises  of  reform  are  never  kept. 
Law  has  no  use  for  charity.  Law  flouts  charity  as 
being  soft  and  mere  sentiment.  Law  knows  no  love 
that  is  not  absorption  and  does  not  frame  a  law  to 
suit  the  older  and  the  Roman  son.  Yes,  Apollos,  it 
is  an  age  when  over-accumulators  are  treated  in  the 
penitentiaries  to  the  choicest  of  all  foods,  while  love 
and  charity  is  left  to  starve;  that  provides  over- 


accumulators  with  feasts  and  entertainments  while 
love  and  charity  are  absorbed  to  meet  the  expenses. 
But  when  you  coin  silver  love,  my  dear  brother,  as 
fast  as  you  coin  golden  law,  methinks  "the  stone 
which  the  builders  rejected  may  be  the  chief  stone 
in  the  corner"  after  all,  as  that  your  high-headed, 
towering  sky-scrapers  are  likely  to  have  a  fall  now 
in  the  contraction,  and  may  be  refuge  only  for  the 
owls  and  bats  of  life,  electrically  speaking. 

Pretty  and  sentimental  and  imaginative,  Paul, 
but  not  practical.  According  to  your  suggestion  the 
change  from  negative  to  positive,  and  the  reverse 
holding,  we  might  expect  to  see  the  sun  turn  to  dark- 
ness and  "darkness  turn  to  day,"  while  chaos  would 
be  with  us  now  on  earth. 

Certainly,  the  blending  of  the  two  degrees 
means  change  —  an  immaculate  change,  or  birth. 
That  is,  if  Bi-Metallism  or  even  balance  is  the 
Justice  and  the  Truth  of  this  Universe  and  to  be 
manifest  now  soon  upon  the  earth.  If  Gravity 
or  Monopoly,  or  the  Golden  Molten  Calf,  is  the 
only  Truth,  however,  why  look  out  for  prosper- 
ity? But  what  is  your  idea  of  prosperity?  Con- 
traction seems  to  suit  you  if  it  be  at  our  expense, 
but  when  you  find  contraction  is  cutting  your  cities 
and  values,  is  our  gain,  in  short,  and  your  loss,  why, 
my  dear  Apollos,  you  will  very  soon  be  singing,  "Will 
ye  no  come  back  again"?  And  are  we  not,  as  a 
whole  Terrestrial  people,  in  a  state  of  chaos?  Or 
do  you  imagine  "order  fair  prevails"?  Will  you 
never  understand  there  are  two  of  us  and  that  we 
are  the  reverse  process  of  each  other,  either  as  atoms 

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of  silver  and  gold  or  as  individual  atoms  or  Nations 
or  Hemispheres?  Take  your  first  son  to  the  garden, 
Apollos;  plant  100  strawberry  plants  each  and  you 
will  find  out  there  are  two  of  you  and  counterparts, 
for  Nature  has  not  forgotten  you,  Apollos,  and  life 
there,  too,  will  shudder,  yes,  and  die  at  the  cold  and 
absorbent  touch  of  iron,  while  Nature  will  respond 
with  life  to  the  warmth  of  your  son.  The  electrical 
or  psychical  explanation  is  simple  enough  and  may 
be  demonstrated  in  any  family  where  the  characters 
or  points  of  view,  or  Natures  or  Minerals  (or  graven 
images),  are  pronounced.  Your  touch  is  cold  and 
absorbs  the  life  current  of  the  plant,  taking  more 
than  you  give,  by  virtue  of  your  receptive  monopoly. 
The  son,  your  reverse  process  of  your  own  life,  gives 
more  life  current  to  the  plant  than  he  absorbs.  The 
one  is  the  transmitter,  electrically  or  psychically, 
the  other  is  the  receiver  and,  in  this  case,  at  least, 
my  dear  brother,  "the  child  is  father  to  the  man." 

But  the  blending  of  the  two  degrees  may  create 
Nitric  Acid  or  Nitrogen  in  the  human  body,  Paul, 
and  create  havoc  generally  with  us  as  presently  con- 
stituted. 

Certainly,  Apollos,  it  will  cause  contraction,  a 
veritable  fiery  furnace,  in  short,  that  will,  in  its  turn, 
reach  you  also.  That  is  part  of  the  Terrestrial  rot, 
as  a  result  of  bringing  your  graven  image  to  this 
Continent,  as  well  as  the  other,  and  tampering  with 
a  Terrestrial  law. 

And  who  would  believe  any  such  Truth  as  that? 
Not  your  advanced  scholars  and  divines. 

Likely  not,  Apollos;  we  are  all  apt  to  manufac- 

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ture  a  Truth  to  suit  our  own  fancy  in  these  days, 
without  regard  to  the  fancy  of  our  counterpart,  or 
Truth  resting  between  the  two.  "The  song  of 
Moses,''  "The  Prodigal's  return,"  Abraham's  sacri- 
fice, Mordecai  and  Esther.  A  recognition  of  the  sec- 
ond son  as  well  as  the  first,  and  a  recognition  of  the 
white  horse  as  well  as  the  red  horse.  These  alle- 
gorical suggestions  and  the  evolution  offered  by 
every  Bible  Prophet  Philosopher  are  as  mere  "folk 
lore"  and  "ignorance"  to  present  literature. 

True,  literature  may  preach  the  even  balance — 
Bi-Metallism — ^yes,  and  remind  you  there  are  two  of 
us,  which,  of  course,  you  will  pass  as  uninteresting. 
Two  of  us  they  will  preach,  however,  Apollos,  al- 
though should  one  of  the  two  offer  a  suggestion  it 
might  possibly  be  flouted  as  "ignorance."  Give  the 
advanced  divines  time,  however,  Apollos,  and  it  may 
he  they  will  carve  you  out  such  a  book  as  will  suit 
your  fancy.  There  may  not  be  much  of  the  book 
left  when  they  have  finished  with  it,  Apollos.  It 
would  be  undignified  to  bless  the  second  son  or  ac- 
cept the  white  horse  as  one  who  wears  the  crown. 
Ah,  yes,  to  suit  your  fancy,  Apollos,  it  would  be  all 
lion  and  no  lamb.  But,  electrically  speaking,  it 
would  seem  the  lion  may  yet  rest  beside  the  lamb 
of  life,  as  sugested,  my  dear  brother. 

Humph!     I  doubt  it  all. 

Certainly,  Apollos,  you  were  born  to  doubt, 
have  been  doubting  and  saying  "No"  from  the 
beginning  of  all  time.  As  we  have  been  saying 
"Yes"  from  the  beginning  of  time  and  born  say- 
ing   yes,    possibly.     But    we    have    reversed    the 

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current  now  and,  as  your  days  lengthen,  Apollos, 
and  your  colds  strengthen,  Apollos,  you  are  likely 
to  have  an  ocular  demonstration  of  the  fact  that 
while  silver  and  all  silver  atoms  in  Monopoly  inflate, 
gold  is  merely  its  reverse  process,  or  complement, 
and  in  Monopoly  will  contract;  that  contraction 
means  death,  whom,  via  Bi-Metallism,  it  would  seem 
we  are  to  conquer.  But  silver  will  also  contract 
now;  yes,  undoubtedly.  For  every  conservative 
Turk  that  falls  a  silver  Greek  somewhere  will  also 
meet  his  death,  for  every  Koman  Spanish  son  that 
falls  a  silver  Cuban  son  somewhere  will  meet  his 
death,  and  for  every  conservative  Boer  in  Africa  that 
falls  an  English  Celt  will  somewhere  meet  his 
death.  And  if  England  dominate  in  Africa  it 
will  only  be  to  die  in  Europe.  As  gold  and  all 
negative  minerals  and  atoms  are  tried  and  strength- 
ened and  purified  and  refined  hy  contraction  in  the  fur- 
nace of  heat,  however,  Apollos,  I  will  admit  silver 
and  all  silver  or  positive  minerals  and  atoms,  are 
tried  and  strengthend  and  purified  hy  contraction  in 
the  furnace  of  cold;  and  while  we  certainly  will  not 
ask  you  to  believe  life,  such  as  it  is,  and  governed  by 
Monopoly  as  the  only  Truth,  you  will  have  difficulty, 
my  dear  Apollos,  in  convincing  us  contraction  or 
death  is  the  only  Truth  of  this  Universe.  The  baser 
metals  and  minerals,  chemistry  will  demonstrate, 
are  the  most  inveterate  absorbents.  Cold  brick  in 
Its  first  stage  of  the  furnace  is  an  inveterate  absorb- 
ent of  heat.  While  on  the  other  side  corn  meal  is 
an  inveterate  absorbent  of  moisture,  requiring  little 
heat  in  its  preparation  for  food. 

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The  pure  silver  and  the  pure  gold  are  each  ductile  and 
yielding,  one  to  the  other,  and  each,  as  you  have  observed, 
seems  worJcing  towards  Bi-Metallism  merely  hy  the  reverse 
process  of  each  other. 

Yes,  Paul,  I  believe  that  part  of  it,  but  am  not 
satisfied  with  your  violation  of  a  Natural  and  Mate- 
rial law.  Remember  Drummond's  story  of  the  swal- 
low, Paul,  and  Kyds  "stressing  and  struggling." 
Even  balances  may  do  in  Heaven,  but  we  have  never 
yet  been  able  to  reach  them  on  earth. 

Then,  Apollos,  you  will  either  have  to  abandon 
your  body  or  your  soul,  your  business  or  your  Church, 
for  the  fight  is  on  now,  yes,  in  the  very  air  we  breathe, 
through  earth  and  sea.  Disgusted  with  the  hypo- 
cracy  of  your  conservative  preaching,  while  prac- 
ticing absorbtion  with  cat-like  stealth,  the  liberal 
half  of  life  (including  the  sun)  are  retiring  to  their 
tents  until  the  issue  has  been  fairly  met,  determined 
to  find  out,  at  least,  whether  it  be  possible  to  do  on 
earth  as  it  is  in  Heaven.  Strong  in  the  belief  that 
while  the  country  of  life  will  be  given  to  the  fire  and 
flames,  the  city  of  life  will  also  be  scattered  to  the 
winds;  while  those  left  may  be  so  strengthened  and 
purified  by  this  contraction  the  city  of  the  future  will 
be  pure  and  undefiled. 

That  may  be,  Paul,  that  may  be.  But  you  have 
too  many  visionary  ideas,  too  much  given  to  getting 
off  your  feet,  going  out  beyond  your  depth.  There 
have  been  many  false  Prophets,  remember,  and  you 
are  not  the  first,  Paul,  who  has  strained  at  a  camel 
and  had  to  swallow  a  gnat.  Too  many  if  s  and  an's 
and  suppositions. 


And  may  Truth  not  be  reached  in  the  parable, 
Apollos?  And  may  Truth  not  be  reached  in  a  true 
harmony  of  color,  as  it  may  on  the  harp?  Visionary 
and  gnat,  and  that  sort  of  thing,  is  merely  a  flont, 
Apollos;  no  mathematics  there.  You  must  have 
your  theory  before  you  can  test  it  by  your  mathe- 
matics. Do  you  expect  to  start  your  factories  and 
get  up  the  steam  of  progress  without  the  heat  of  life? 

The  farmer  who  endeavors  to  grow  silver  heat 
corn  only  on  his  farm,  without  feeding  the  land  with 
its  counterparts,  would  find,  in  a  few  short  years, 
his  farm  was  dead.  But  the  farmer  who  farms  his 
land  by  God^s  own  Holy  laws  of  Bi-Metallism  or 
Reciprocity  or  Rotation,  has  a  farm  that  never  dies. 
And  yet,  Apollos,  you  expect  us  to  manufacture 
brick  for  you  without  the  wheat  straw,  the  heat,  elec- 
trically speaking,  of  life?  You  certainly  are  a  very 
greedy  Pharaoh,  but  the  time  is  coming  when,  if  you 
will  not  make  haste  to  reform  and  meet  us  half  way, 
Mr.  European  Apollos,  we  will  simply  "break  the 
^bonds'  asunder  and  cast  away  the  yoke  from  us." 
Of  course  you  will  growl — growl  repudiation,  but 
it  will  come  by  law,  Apollos — a  law  neither  of  us  will 
be  able  to  resist,  for  it  will  be  a  Natural  law.  Will 
we  relish  it?  No ;  at  least  not  until  we  reach  it,  some 
of  us,  since  your  idea  of  an  equal  balance  seems  to  be 
4  for  you  and  0  for  us  in  the  division  of  four;  but  con- 
traction is  cutting  with  a  two-edged  sword  at  pres- 
ent and  balances  are  being  regulated  to  suit  the  other 
half  also,  somewhat. 

Give  us  time,  Paul,  give  us  time.  You  are  en- 
tirely too  impatient.     Our   Eastern   Mathematical 

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factories  will  turn  out  progress  for  the  West  now  as 
soon  as  the  tariff  bill  is  out  of  the  way. 

And  the  East  will  now  become  the  advance  agent, 
will  it?  The  hustler  who  spends  his  money  freely 
to  the  West,  who  allows  the  West  to  dictate  the 
prices  of  its  products?  Ah,  yes;  but  it  will  be  by 
the  Natural  law  of  contraction,  however,  Apollos, 
and  because  you  may  be  running  short  of  food. 

Paul,  as  you  have  suggested  there  is  nothing  in 
this  world  yet,  in  a  manner  other  than  Roman,  that 
is  not  Greek  in  tone,  it  might  be  well  for  us  to  emu- 
late Rome's  attitude  with  the  English  Church  in 
their  effort  to  reach  the  even  balance  before  the  Tri- 
Millenial.  If  you  will  get  your  various  forces  and 
ideas  that  are  so  rattled  and  scattered  together  we 
may  then  be  able  to  learn  what  you  desire  and  may 
be  able  to  meet  you  half  way.  Meantime  if  we  can- 
not manufacture  brick  without  heat,  you  certainly 
cannot  produce  without  moisture. 

But  we  have  never  posed  as  the  only  sound  half 
of  life,  Apollos,  and  as  infallible.  We  have  merely 
offered  you  the  suggestion  of  Bi-Metallism — gold 
and  silver  side  by  side,  just  weights  and  even  bal- 
ances— as  the  only  sound  policy  we  can  ever  accept. 
We  neither  desire  a  Silver  Graven  Kid  nor  a  Golden 
Molten  Calf,  and  while  willing  to  allow  England  an 
opportunity  to  act  graciously — in  the  blending  of 
the  two  degrees,  two  in  the  field,  one  taken  the  other 
left — Bi-Metallism  is  as  likely  to  include  a  Terres- 
trial as  well  as  an  individual  atom,  and  it  is  not  likely 
the  people  have  been  gathered  to  this  Continent  out 
of  the  house  of  bondage  and  from  every  land  only  to 

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have  the  graven  image  chaining  them  again,  and 
merely  by  chance.  With  gold  in  Monopoly,  which, 
like  any  other  Monopoly,  means  Baal  and  death  for 
a  basis,  your  Terrestrial  body  is  as  likely  to  die  as 
any  other  atom,  my  dear  Apollos,  and  while  England 
has  it  in  her  power  to  grant  us  peace,  a  lasting  peace, 
by  offering  Bi-Metallism  as  the  wedding  and  blend- 
ing of  the  Nations  of  this  earth,  it  would  seem  that, 
instead  of  peace,  she  is  bringing  us  a  sword. 

England  is  mistress  of  the  seas,  Paul.  Has  the 
greatest  navy  and  does  the  largest  business  of  any 
power  on  earth.  Then  look  at  her  Queen.  The  noble 
woman,  wife  and  mother. 

True,  Apollos,  I  grant  it  true.  We  may  see  the 
fangs  of  her  ocean  greyhounds  as  they  plow  the 
mighty  deep,  and  we  may  see  her  warships  lowering 
round  the  coast  of  every  land,  proclaiming  to  the  Na- 
tions her  intention  to  protect  her  ^Hnterests^^  wherever 
they  may  be.  Yes,  and  Victoria  certainly  has  been 
a  noble  woman,  and  while  in  her  day  of  gladness 
wedded  to  the  silver  side  of  life,  and  with  a  fondness 
for  the  Celtic  race,  there  has  been  little  done,  how- 
ever, for  them,  other  than  "receiving"  their  homage, 
you  must  own.  A  charming  receiver,  Apollos;  but 
it  takes  the  grey  eagle  of  life  the  Princess  of  Wales, 
with  her  warmth,  to  do  the  radiating  and  sunny  part 
in  life.  And  your  Negative  Apollos  would  cut  a  sorry 
figure  without  her,  as  you  know.  As  sorry  a  figure 
as  your  army  would  without  their  Highlanders,  their 
Celts  and  Scottish  Greys;  and  as  sorry  a  figure  as 
your  Navy  would  without  your  dashing  Beresfords. 

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There  are  two  of  us,  Apollos,  you  must  own,  either  as 
positive  or  negative. 

Your  rose  of  England  is  a  beautiful  and  lustrous 
flower,  we  grant,  and  charged  with  pigments,  to,  of 
gold;  but  there  are  Scottish  bells  of  blue,  and  purple 
heather  on  the  other  side  the  silver  side  of  life. 
There  is  no  lily  of  your  field,  no  rose  that  hangs  upon 
your  garden  wall.  There  is  no  modest  primrose  of 
the  dale  or  blossom  breathing  golden  fragrance  to  the 
air,  that  does  not  have  a  silver  prodigal  somewhere 
for  mate. 

A  lover  so  "debased,"  the  oxygenic  son,  the  ox  of 
life,  in  sacrilege  proclaims.  Unmindful  not  only  of 
the  father  who  begat  him  but  of  the  God  who  formed 
us  both. 

But  you  forget  we  are  the  great  English  speaking 
race,  Paul,  and  should  be  loyal  and  bound  together 
by  the  bond  of  language. 

And  from  where  did  you  derive  your  language, 
if  not  from  Greece  and  Rome  and  France?  And 
from  where  did  you  derive  your  blood,  if  not  from 
Greece  and  Rome  and  France?  And  do  you  imagine, 
when  it  is  a  question  of  warm  blood  versus  cold  blood, 
your  "absorbent"  language  will  count  for  anything? 

Our  blood  is  not  the  same,  my  brother  Apollos, 
and  you  know  it.  "For  their  Rock  is  not  the  same 
as  our  Rock,  even  our  enemies  themselves  being 
Judges"  —  (Song  of  Moses).  And  if  your  gold  could 
not  buy  us  in  the  early  days,  do  you  think  the  gold  of 
Oreb  can  buy  us  when  it  comes  to  a  question  of  shut- 
ting up  one-half  of  Psychical  life?  My  dear  brother, 
you  must  be  dull  if  unable  to  note  Destiny  is  driving 


the  Roman  Saxon  and  the  Roman  Spanish  son  back 
to  the  Egypt  of  his  life  from  whence  he  came. 

To  jubilate  at  a  time  when  your  family  are  suffer- 
ing for  food  to  eat  and  dying  of  the  plague  and  pesti- 
lence is  of  itself  an  evidence  you  have  more  territory 
than  able  to  care  for,  my  dear  brother,  and  you  may 
prepare  to  disgorge  very  soon  now,  as  the  contraction 
proceeds.  The  black  horse  with  the  Scales  levels  all 
balances,  remember.  As  Chemistry  and  Electricity 
will  corroborate. 

But  that  is  a  vulgar  attempt  to  create  feeling  by 
appealing  to  the  emotions  and  prejudices  of  the  peo- 
ple. Yes,  Apollos,  you  mean,  however,  it  is  a  Truth 
of  yourself  that  hurts  and  brings  forth  the  baby 
squeal  of  "creating  feeling."  The  Truth  you  prefer, 
my  dear  placid  brother,  is  a  Truth  that  will  hurt  us, 
such  as  pitchfork,  anarchist,  dangerous  and  bad 
form,  and  cheap  and  reprobate  silver.  Exactly, 
Apollos,  but  the  question  hetween  us  is  not,  does  it  hurt? 
does  it  create  feeling  and  make  us  growl?  hut,  Is  it  true? 
The  days  of  sorcery  and  infallibility  and  the  only 
sound,  etc.,  are  going  with  the  second  Cycle  of  our 
time. 

These  Cycles  are  breaking  down  our  cities,  Paul. 
They  are  upsetting  all  business  interests,  disturbing 
the  street  car  business,  interfering  with  railroad 
travel,  crowding  out  the  horse  and  playing  havoc 
with  the  coal  trade  and  business  generally.  And  the 
electrical  Cycle  seems  to  be  art  and  part  of  the  ma- 
terial Cycle  —  working  together,  there  seems  no 
limit  to  their  progress  or  any  telling  where  they  are 
likely  to  lead  us.     Why,  from  present  indications, 

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the  very  suggestions  we  have  flouted  as  being  popo- 
cratic  and  silveritic,  are  with  us  before  we  have  been 
in  control  six  months.  Contracted  real  estate  and 
contracted  railroads;  real  estate  selling  for  taxes  and 
no  one  to  buy,  returning  to  a  paternal  form  of  govern- 
ment, by  taxation,  in  the  interest  of  the  unemployed. 
Certainly  the  horse  is  going  and  social  life  is  in  a 
state  of  transition;  and  can  you  manufacture  your 
cold  ice  in  an  artificial  way  without  ammonia?  But 
Nitrogen  is  the  Eefiners  fire,  and  who  may  abide  the 
hour  of  its  coming?  Physicians  know  well  the  Ni- 
trogen so  prevalent  in  Spring  will  release  from  bond- 
age many  a  weary  laden  soul,  and  Naturalists  know 
the  coming  of  the  Nitrogen  is  a  consuming  fire  that 
robs  the  tiny  buds  of  form  if  oil  has  gone  and  any 
light  was  out.  Those  who  are  noting  the  extraordin- 
ary amount  of  Nitrogen  in  the  ground  and  air  at  the 
present  time  are  not  going  to  believe  it  is  here  by 
chance,  but  are  looking  for  it  in  man,  in  the  eyes  of 
fire  begotten  of  the  Truth,  for  Nitrogen  will  certainly 
"purify  the  sons  of  Levi,"  and,  as  we  reach  it,  will  ob- 
literate the  sun  and  put  an  end  to  war,  since,  with  a 
flash  of  this  indignant  Truth,  a  city,  or  a  regiment 
would  soon  be  blotted  out.  Smile  as  you  will,  Apol- 
los;  remember  the  human  body  is  an  electrical  table 
and  the  Covenant  with  Moses,  in  which  we  have  de- 
lighted, is  virtually  the  Power  which  has  not  only 
crowded  out  your  horse,  but  is  being  manifest  al- 
ready, by  contraction  on  the  earth.  You  have 
crushed  us,  Apollos,  but  in  crushing  us  have  merely 
also  crushed  yourself  —  for  Truth  is  a  two-edged 
sword. 

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True,  somewhat,  Paul,  but  if  you  had  remained  at 
home  instead  of  going  forever  abroad  and  being  so 
easy  and  good  natured  and  such  a  spendthrift  as  a 
Continent,  we  would  not  be  required  to  play  the  re- 
ceiver. And  further,  Paul,  if  you  will  only  cultivate 
patience  now,  instead  of  discord  and  strife,  we  will 
proceed  to  absorb  new  territory  for  you. 

Absorb  territory,  of  course.  Gravity  and  absorp- 
tion is  your  idea,  your  only  idea,  of  life.  Nation  will 
now  absorb  Nation,  while  preaching  peace,  peace  and 
arbitration.  Eailroad  will  now  absorb  railroad. 
Bank  will  absorb  bank.  Street  car  Company  will 
absorb  Street  car  Company.  Business  will  absorb 
business,  and  one  individual  atom  of  a  human  body 
will  absorb  another.  Ah,  it  is  a  wonderfully  greedy 
beast,  this  Golden  Calf  —  this  Baal,  this  Monopoly, 
this  death,  and  we  are  quite  as  bad,  for  we  are  but 
the  prodigal  who  ever  worships  at  its  shrine. 

Will  you  never  learn,  Apollos,  we  are  merely 
counterparts  —  the  reverse  process  of  each  other? 
When,  as  mineral  atoms  in  the  depths  of  the  earth, 
were  we  not  as  one,  and  the  reverse  of  each  other? 
So  wonderfully  fashioned  in  the  depths  of  the  earth 
by  the  Creator  of  all  life  as  human  atoms,  are  we  not 
the  reverse  of  each  other  even  now?  And  while 
composed  of  varied  tones  and  hues,  when  grouped 
together  as  political  atoms,  do  we  not  range  together 
as  the  reverse  process  of  each  other?  And  while,  as 
Nations,  we  have  various  tones  and  modes  of  speech, 
the  one  language  absorbing  the  other  in  its  westward 
march,  are  we  not  either  decidedly  Roman  and  stolid 
in  tone  or  Greek  and  mercurial  in  tone?    And  in  ad- 


vancing  the  argument  to  Hemispheres  as  Terrestrial 
atoms,  May  we  not  suggest  the  Western  Hemisphere 
as  being  decidedly  active  in  tone,  with  the  older 
world  as  passive  in  tone?  And  do  you  fancy,  my 
older  brother,  we  have  been  gathered  together  from 
every  land  merely  by  chance,  and  that  you  may  fol- 
low us  with  your  selfish  "loyalty"  and  selfish  law? 
A  law  that  gives  you  everything?  That  you  can 
bring  the  golden  Calf,  that  has  ever  absorbed  the 
Nation's  vitality,  unto  Cities,  crowding  out  the  prod- 
igals to  other  lands?  It  at  least  would  seem  doubt- 
ful. 

There  is  one  argument,  Paul,  in  our  favor,  which 
you  will  have  difficulty  in  reversing.  Why  is  it  you, 
as  the  silver  side  of  life,  are  like  a  carion  bird,  look- 
ing for  every  little  accident  and  calamity  and  death 
—  gloating  over  it,  spewing  it  out  of  your  mouth  only 
to  be  the  dog  again  returning  to  his  vomit,  while  "fac- 
tories'' are  starting  up  in  every  corner  of  the  land? 
.You  persist  in  shutting  your  eyes  to  our  factories, 
Paul,  and  the  evidences  of  prosperity  and  confidence 
which  are  at  hand. 

My  dear  Brother,  if  the  Philosophy  of  the  Kock 
(Nitrogen)  is  the  Centrifugal  force  and  Truth  of  this 
Universe  there  is  not  an  argument  either  side  in 
Monopoly  can  advance  that  cannot  be  reversed  and 
that  will  not  cut  as  a  two-edged  sword. 

We  gloat  over  depression,  you  say,  and  persist  in 
brushing  aside  the  evidences  of  factories,  etc.  And 
you,  as  our  reverse,  Apollos,  merely  bow  down  and 
worship  your  own  graven  image  of  a  negative  mathe- 
matical factory,  shutting  your  eyes  to  the  depression 


existing  in  every  city,  because  Paul  is  not  coming  to 
Town  and  being  the  lamb  of  life.  Is  he  a  wise  gen- 
eral and  mathematical  who  does  not  consider  one- 
half  of  his  army  who  are  starving  and  suffering  for 
food  to  eat,  because  forsooth,  he  has  stuffed  the  other 
half  in  Monopoly  and  greedy  gorge?  That  we  have 
birds  of  carion  on  our  side.  Electricity  and  Alchemy 
will  demonstrate;  but,  my  dear  brother,  they  have, 
for  counterpart  on  your  side,  the  animal  Landseer 
introduced,  also,  as  well  as  the  carion  —  a  member 
of  the  cat  family  that,  in  Monopoly  and  quiet  stealth, 
is  resting  on  the  bosom  of  the  young  America,  ab- 
sorbing, yes,  his  very  vital  life.  Ah,  he  is  a  wonder- 
fully greedy  beast  this  carion  as  the  —  in  man  on  the 
hydrogenic  side  of  life  and  a  wonderfully  greedy 
beast  this —  in  man  on  the  oxygenic  side  of  life.  But 
the  current  has  been  reversed  now,  Apollos,  and  it 
will  be  interesting  for  us  to  note  with  what  reluct- 
ance the  golden  half  of  life  in  the  receptive  man  ad- 
vances and  gives  the  current  in  order  to  protect  his 
interests  or  principle,  and  it  will  also  be  interesting 
to  note  how  the  silver  side,  who  are  being  compressed 
and  shut  up,  will  be  able  "to  abide  the  hour  of  trial," 
will  be  able  to  remain  at  home  and  act  as  the  re- 
ceiver, while  the  Nitrogen  is  burning  within  him  as 
the  Great  Kefiner's  Fire. 

Humph !  Mere  theory  and  vague  imagery,  with- 
out regard  to  facts.  Nothing  solid  as  a  basis.  Must 
you  go?  Then  do  cultivate  repose  of  manner,  Paul, 
and  dignity,  and  a  due  respect  for  the  law.  Love 
may  be  all  right,  my  volatile  brother,  but  law  and 

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mathematics  and  factories  and  cities  are  the  basis 
of  our  society. 

Love  or  Nitrogen  or  Electricity  or  Spirit  may  gov- 
ern the  next  world,  Paul,  but  law  and  the  golden  rule 
of  gravity  are  Lords  on  Earth.  As  your  own  liberal 
Divines  observe,  we  have  too  much  of  this  disem- 
bodied Spirit  —  all  Spirit  and  no  body.  Certainly, 
Apollos,  that  is  the  side  of  Truth  you  look  for  and 
the  only  side  you  see,  oblivious  to  the  fact  there  is  a 
reverse  process  of  that  Truth  we  see,  reading, 
"there  are  too  many  large  bodies  on  this  earth  void 
of  soul."  Yes  you  love  to  quote  our  side  when  they 
note  a  flaw  in  us  but  will  never  recognize  those  same 
Divines  are  able  to  note  there  are  two  of  us  —  two 
sides  —  or  that  one  is  merely  the  reverse  process  of 
the  other.  As  to  your  golden  rule  and  law,  when  the 
earth  quakes  beneath  your  feet  and  your  own  earth 
of  a  body  quakes  in  travail,  do  you  think  the  golden 
rule  will  help  you  out?  And  since  you  are  respon- 
sible for  this  contraction,  by  retiring  to  your  tents, 
do  you  think  Justice  will  help  you  out  Paul?  Good 
night. 


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'A  drop  of  ink  may  make  a  million  think. 


Apollos,  after  PauPs  departure.  Did  you  ever 
hear  such  a  menagerie  of  nonsense?  We  must  get 
together  cannon  and  ball.  Despatch  our  flying 
squadrons  with  sealed  orders  that  our  "interests" 
be  protected  and  our  International  laws  be  respected. 

Nature's  laws — how  horrid.  And  yet  Bi-Metall- 
ism  would  be  justice  and  the  whole  world  does  seem 
out  of  tune.  But  such  a  lot  of  allegorical  bosh. 
Greek  astrology  and  alchemy  and  electricity.  Why 
the  blending  of  the  two  degrees  in  the  human  body, 
constituted,  as  it  is,  of  all  the  chemical  properties 
of  a  Continent,  would  create  bromides  and  crystals, 
with  all  the  gems  and  precious  minerals  and  treas- 
ures of  the  earth.  Confound  the  fellow's  Bible  sug- 
gestion and  the  Tri-Millenial.  Who  ever  thought  of 
becoming  Bi-Metallic  or  of  disappearing,  by  com- 
bustion, into  the  crystaline  ether  of  the  Heavens? 

The  sugestion  of  compressing  hydrogen  is  also 
omenous  and  might  create  such  a  state  of  affairs  in 
the  forehead  as  has  been  offered  by  the  various  Bible 
Prophet  evolutionists.  The  compression  would  also 
create  such  intense  heat  as  would  be  likely  to  "pluck 
out  the  hair,"  while  there  is  also  the  possibility  of 
explosion  such  as  an  opening  of  the  third  eye  in  an 
evolution  of  the  race.  Humph,  yes,  and  there  also 
seems  a  possibility  of  human  spontaneous  combus- 


tion.  And  the  reverse  side — our  own  side — is  also 
to  be  feared,  for  our  men  are  getting  as  mincing  and 
jaunty  on  their  feet  as  liberal  men  are  compressed. 
Yes,  a  reverse  that  reads  hydraulics  or  condensed 
moisture,  and  if  the  argument  will  apply  to  Nations, 
as  it  would  seem  from  their  agitation,  and  to  Hem- 
ispheres, as  it  would  seem  from  their  temperature, 
and  the  sea's  contraction,  why,  then,  we  may  prepare 
for  contraction  generally.  That  there  is  +  and  — 
in  hydrogen,  which  have  the  relations  of  positive  and 
negative,  we  will  have  to  admit,  and  the  same  is  rec- 
ognized of  oxygen,  so  that  his  argument  of  a  posi- 
tive and  negative  prodigal  and  mathematics,  it 
seems,  would  hold  in  reference  to  human  atoms. 

We  must  also  admit,  as  suggested  by  chemistry 
and  metallurgy,  there  are  seven  primary  colors,  as 
seen  in  the  bow  upon  the  clouds  ranging  in  a  Bi- 
Metallic  harmony,  and  that,  as  there  are  seven  notes 
in  music,  so,  likewise  it  would  seem  there  may  be  in 
us  as  human  atoms  seven  distinct  churches,  with 
each,  as  his  Electricity  would  suggest,  tuned  to  a 
certain  vibration. 

Yes,  Bi-Metallism  has  a  meaning  few  politicians 
seem  as  yet  to  realize,  and  since  this  brother  of  mine 
has  taken  it  up,  we  know  from  past  experience  no 
power  on  earth  will  move  him  until  his  project  has 
been  faced.  As  that  the  longer  we  refuse  to  meet 
him,  the  more  refractory  will  his  warmth  become 
and  the  more  of  our  oxygen  and  gold  and  city  life 
will  he  attract.  Yes,  we  must  also  own  these  Cycles, 
material  and  electrical,  are  creating  such  a  change 
in  our  mode  of  life  contraction  seems  absolutely  nec- 

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essary.  And  yet,  as  the  horse  is  going,  so  may  the 
ammonia  of  human  life  be  going.  With  Harmony 
established,  the  treasures  of  the  earth,  as  employed 
at  present,  would  count  for  nothing  then. 

Should  the  degrees  in  the  atoms  of  individual  life 
be  in  Harmony  at  the  Tri-Millenial,  who  knows  what 
form  the  evolution  or  birth  may  take?  To  look  at 
an  egg  or  an  embryo  no  one  would  imagine  a  fowl 
with  wings  could  evolve  from  such  a  cavity  unless 
led  to  expect  it.  That  we  are  breathing  ammonia 
and  brimstone  daily  and  dying  daily  me  must  admit, 
and  it  may  be  we  are  in  a  cavity  (down  in  hades)  in- 
stead of  being  on  the  outside,  as  we  fancy;  for,  after 
all,  who  knows  definitely  whether,  in  looking  at  the 
Heavens,  we,  as  the  former  image  of  Truth,  may  not 
be  looking  at  our  own  shadow,  at  the  great  Divine 
mind  of  which  our  mind  is  a  miniature  likeness. 

That  Paul,  as  the  producer  and  silver  half  of  life, 
was  formed  to  be  in  touch  with  Nature  we  must  own, 
as  that  we  were  evidently  formed  to  receive  his  pro- 
ducts and  that  it  should  be  Keciprocity.  Paul  re- 
ceiving my  sister  as  mate  while  we,  as  the  reverse, 
receive  his  sister. 

We  will  be  compelled  to  admit  we  have  absorbed 
more  into  our  cities  than  entitled  to,  however,  and 
must  prepare  to  suffer  by  the  contraction.  But 
there  is  a  wierdness  about  this  alchemy  and  astrology 
and  witchcraft  that  seems  to  our  side,  at  least,  as 
doleful  and  uncanny  as  his  Grecian  mountains  or  his 
Grampion  Hills. 


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Flout  these  suggestions  as  you  will,  Apollos;  if 
there  be  any  Truth  here,  truth  will  remain  with  you, 
brush  it  aside  as  you  may. 

Dominating  ever  on  your  negative  salt  sea  wa- 
ters, you  are  no  match  alone,  on  land,  for  any  posi- 
tive Continental  Army  and  you  will  merely  be  driven 
out  of  Europe  with  the  second  Cycle  of  time.  Mere 
coincidence?  Mere  chance  all  these  efforts  of  the 
Nations  to  regulate  the  balance  of  power?  Mere 
chance  that  prompts  the  churches  now  to  seek  the 
level  scales  and  "Harmony"?  Chance  that  prompts 
the  silver  half  of  life  to  seek  an  even  balance  too? 
Mere  chance  that  brought  us  out  of  every  land  to  this 
America  of  ours,  as  well  as  yours?  That  groups 
this  change  and  agitation  and  contraction,  the  fall- 
ing of  the  stars  and  the  party  of  darkness  turning  to 
the  party  of  day,  all  towards  the  Tri-Millenial? 
Name  it  chance,  if  you  will,  when  talking  selfish, 
greedy  politics,  but  at  the  bottom  of  your  heart — 
when  in  your  sober  moments — conscience  tells  you 
you  are  merely  shirking  your  duty  by  brushing  these 
facts  aside  with  a  flout,  instead  of  facing  them  man- 
fully and  being  equal  to  the  emergency. 

Old  as  this  Universe  seems  to  be,  unless  the  hu- 
man race  had  been  removed  by  wars  and  by  devas- 
tation generally  from  time  to  time,  it  would  require 
as  many  mansions  and  worlds  as  there  are  stars  in 
the  firmament  to  hold  the  Natural  increase.  This 
any  one  could  figure  out  who  would  start  their  Math- 
ematical brain  and  factory  and  settle  down  to  analy- 
sis, instead  of  striking  and  "creating  feeling"  and  a 
disturbance  with   flouts  and   scolds   and  jibes — a 

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negative  strike  of  Allah!  Allah!  Gold  is  the  only 
god  and  the  mercury  of  life  is  cheap  and  debased  and 
unsound  and  vulgar  and  bad  form,  don't  you  know. 
All  of  which,  to  one  who  is  the  Kock  of  silver,  as  well 
as  the  Kock  of  gold,  must  be  the  greatest  rubbish. 
Is  Truth  not  Alpha  as  well  as  Omega?  Is  Truth 
not  the  pioneer  and  beginning  as  well  as  the  Mathe- 
matics and  ending?  Is  Truth  not  silver  inflation  and 
increase  as  well  as  gold's  contraction  and  decrease? 
Is  Truth  not  as  likely  to  be  silver's  sunny  life  as  well 
as  gold's  cold  death?  Ah,  my  dear  brother,  we 
preach  Truth,  but  there  seems  to  be  little  of  any 
Truth  in  us,  since  we  continually  practice  fraud.  Re- 
pudiation? But  the  negative  consumer  and  mine 
owner  and  factory  owner  will  shirk  his  share  of  the 
contraction,  as  per  usual,  and  endeavor  to  take  it  out 
of  the  blood  of  labor.  Repudiation?  Yes,  will  the 
very  worm  that  crawls  upon  the  ground  not  turn 
upon  you  if  you  crush  it  with  your  iron  heel?  Re- 
pudiation? Yes,  as  our  forefathers  repudiated 
England's  conservative  bondage  in  other  days,  his- 
tory will  repeat  itself.  As  Mexico  and  Cuba  have 
repudiated  Spain's  conservative  sloth  and  bondage 
in  these  days,  and  as  Greece,  who  is  likely  yet  to  be 
assisted  by  the  silver  Nations  against  all  the  Nega- 
tive and  maneuvering  Turks  of  life,  will  repudiate 
the  bondage,  so,  likewise,  the  party  of  life  and  youth 
and  future  hope  will  repudiate  you,  my  conservative 
brother,  if  you  will  not  hasten  to  reform  and  coin 
us  silver  love  as  well  as  golden  scolds  and  law. 

Do  you  imagine  the  Black  Horse  of  Truth  with 
the  level  scales  followed  by  this  contraction  of  Death 

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will  not  be  likely  to  mete  Justice  out  to  and  care  for 
the  White  Horse  of  life  as  well  as  the  Bed  Horse  of 

life? 

As  to  Arbitration,  my  dear  conservative  New 
York  Apollos,  if  you  will  recognize  there  are  two  of 
us  and  counterparts  and  are  willing  to  arbitrate  our 
little  difference  of  giving  silver  an  equal  chance  with 
gold,  why,  my  dear  sir,  we  will  have  solved  the  Phi- 
losophy of  life  and  reached  the  Covenant  as  an 
American  people.  Since,  however,  we  find  your 
idea  of  Arbitration  an  Arbitration  that  favors  gold 
only,  why,  my  dear  brother,  the  sooner  you  rid  your- 
self of  this  "ridiculous  pose"  the  better  for  your 
future  "interests." 

This  logic  is  as  plain,  Mr.  Apollos,  as  the  sugges- 
tion you  have  arrived  at  a  period  in  life  when — it 
must  be  your  body  or  your  soul  and  body — your 
methods  of  absorption  by  Monopoly  or  your  con- 
science and  church,  your  method  of  robbing  our 
Treasury  as  a  perpetual  filch  and  that  of  Reciprocity, 
which  is  Bi-Metallism,  just  weights  and  even  bal- 
ances. And  in  such  a  contest  those  who  have 
marked  the  Divinity  shaping  the  course  of  this  Hem- 
isphere must  realize  what  such  a  contest  means. 

If  Terrestrial  Philosophy,  who  recognize  Magnet- 
ism, is  strongest  in  winter,  when  and  where  the  air 
is  dense,  instead  of  rare,  and  as  silver  in  smelting  is 
at  night,  will  answer  why  the  sun's  light  is  at  pres- 
ent so  refractory  (if  not  because  the  air  charged  with 
negative  currents  is  denser  than  usual),  the  writer 
would  claim  all  atoms  tuned  to  that  vibration  are 
alike  refractory  and  obstinate  and  unyielding  be- 

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cause  of  a  change  from  the  ductile  in  the  rare  atmos- 
phere of  hydrogen. 

Ah,  yes,  we  chain  the  elements,  but  the  elements 
are  chaining  us  to  such  an  extent  we  allow  our  Roct^ 
to  run  away  with  us  without  regard  to  our  other 
half — and  the  Truth  between  us  and  the  Rock  of  our 
salvation.  All  of  which,  together  with  the  Philosophy 
of  our  time,  will  read.  Confidence  is  the  Creator  of 
Money  as  well  as  other  life,  but  that  Money  only 
never  can  and  never  will  create  Confidence,  since 
there  are  two  of  us,  and  Bi-Metallism  is  the  only  Con- 
fidence and  Truth,  the  level  scales.  Electricity,  Ni- 
trogen, Spirit,  as  any  student  of  Electrical  Phi- 
losophy must  own. 

And  is  the  Nation  not  as  safe  under  an  Altgeld 
in  the  demagogic  open  light  of  day  with  the  ability 
to  note  there  is  an  active  mercury  as  well  as  a  chlo- 
rine of  density,  as  the  Nation  will  be  under  a  quiet 
Hanna  consorting  with  England  as  the  only  conser- 
vative and  sound,  under  cover  of  the  darkness  and 
the  night,  who  fondly  imagines  Conservatism  the  ad- 
vance agent,  while  the  active  half,  who  have  ever 
been  their  pioneers  and  whom  they  have  been  "fleec- 
ing" with  their  Monopoly  of  gold  as  the  basis  of  ex- 
change each  way,  are  now  considered  cheap  and  rep- 
robate, and  forsooth  vulgar,  for  presuming  to  sug- 
gest a  repudiation  of  this  bondage. 

When  the  colonies  of  England  realize  gold  as  the 
basis  of  exchange,  each  way  means  England's  price 
for  everything  you  sell  her  and  England's  price  again 
for  everything  you  buy  from  her.  That  by  the  sor- 
cery of  "gold  as  the  only  sound"  she  has  been  en- 

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abled  to  draw  from  their  treasury,  in  one  long,  per- 
petual and  insidious  "filch,"  more  than  her  share — 
the  balance  on  the  average  in  her  favor.  When 
these  facts,  which  can  be  demonstrated  by  an  ex- 
amination of  gold  standard  records  and  by  other 
sciences  in  the  attempted  harmony  of  two  negative 
atoms,  when  the  colonies  and  the  other  Nations  of 
the  earth  have  their  eyes  opened  to  this  simple,  yet 
sublime.  Law  of  Nature  pervading  all  life,  animate 
and  inanimate,  England's  Monopoly  and  selfish  law 
(favoring  the  receiver  of  life)  could  be  made  to  col- 
lapse without  the  loss  of  a  single  life  or  the  firing  of 
a  single  gun  by  adopting  a  silver  standard  and  hold- 
ing the  balance  level  if  she  refuse  Bi-Metallism. 

And  if  the  conservative  Roman  Saxon  and  Roman 
Spanish  son  of  density  and  law  (to  suit  himself,  the 
older  son)  in  Europe  and  America  imagine  they  will 
be  allowed  by  the  liberals  —  the  Grecian  Highland 
Celtic  and  hydrogenic  silver  side  of  life,  including  the 
leading  Military  Powers  of  Europe  —  to  lift  them- 
selves up  in  such  a  brigaudine  of  peace,  peace,  while 
with  catlike  stealth  they  absorb  the  earth,  proclaim- 
ing their  conservative  graven  image  of  a  rock  of  gold 
as  the  only  sound  —  proclaiming  density,  oxygen,  the 
fumes  of  night  and  greedy,  graven  gravity  and  ab- 
sorption as  the  only  Truth  of  this  Universe,  without 
regard  to  either  the  hydrogen  and  rarity  of  life  or 
the  Truth  of  Nitrogen  in  the  even  balance  between 
the  two,  they  are  reckoning  without  a  Mighty  Host 
and  the  man  must  certainly  be  dull  who  does  not  note 
the  blues  and  greys  of  life  are  champing  at  their  bits, 
impatient  for  the  silver  trumpet's  call. 

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IN  CONCLUSION. 


While  the  effort  throughout  has  been  to  demon- 
strate there  are  two  of  us,  one  dominated  by  warmth 
and  the  other  dominated  by  cold,  with  each  inclining 
to  their  own  graven  point  of  view  without  regard  to 
the  other  half  or  the  Truth  resting  with  the  level 
scales  between,  we  will  own  contraction  necessary 
in  order  to  obliterate  corruption  and  level  all  bal- 
ances again.  Who  knows  how  soon  the  people  "that 
walk  in  darkness''  may  see  the  Truth  of  light  radiat- 
ing through  every  form  of  life?  Who  knows  how 
soon  our  ears  may  be  open  to  the  Truth  of  sound? 
That  Nitrogen  is  the  wall  resting  between  the  Cloud 
by  day  and  fire  by  night  Philosophy  and  Chemistry 
already  own,  as  that  the  "drop  of  dew  upon  the  blade 
of  grass"  or  "small  rain  upon  the  tender  herb"  con- 
tain the  Lightnings  flash,  as  that  the  harmony  or 
even  balance  of  a  positive  and  negative  current 
would  generate  in  us  a  light  that  would  be  something 
other  than  the  sun  or  moon.  Electrical  Philosophy 
also  owns  all  atoms  of  life  are  tuned  to  a  certain 
vibration,  and  are  throbbing  and  pulsating  with  a 
song  we  cannot  as  yet  hear. 

That  woman  represents  one-half,  and  has  ever 
been  identified  with  one-half  of  all  the  good,  and 
joy  and  rapture  of  this  Universe  we  must  own,  but 
we  must  also  own  woman  is  found  identified  with 
one-half  of  all  the  evil  also  of  life.    That  there  are 

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two  of  us,  a  silver  side  and  a  gold  side  every  law  of 
Nature  and  every  science  suggests,  neither  of  which 
should  dominate,  but  they  also  demonstrate  all  atoms 
as  presently  constituted  are  unfinished,  unbalanced 
and  in  bondage  to  this  Monopoly  of  a  greedy  body, 
with  the  baser  minerals  and  atoms  as  the  most  in- 
veterate absorbents,  and  the  most  jealous  and  cov- 
etous daughters  of  Judah. 

If  we  are  to  recognize  gravity  and  absorption  as 
the  only  Truth  the  sooner  labor  is  thoroughly  organ- 
ized and  absorbs  Monopoly  and  the  few  greedy  Trusts 
the  better  for  all.  Those  who  are  noting  the  ele- 
ments on  two  Hemispheres,  however,  incline  to  be- 
lieve we  are  merely  taking  our  places  in  the  great 
dramatic  play  of  life.  Mere  puppets  in  this  Battle 
of  the  Elements.  And  is  it  likely  then  the  liberal 
and  festive  silver  half  of  life  and  the  true  gold  of 
life,  ever  yielding  one  to  the  other,  will  continue  to 
be  ductile  and  yielding  that  the  contraction  be  at 
their  expense  alone?  And  can  Confidence  be  reached 
without  them?  And  yet  the  time  must  come  we 
own  when  we  may  have  "a  measure  of  wheat  for  a 
penny  and  three  measures  of  barley  for  a  penny" 
with  "See  thou  hurt  not  the  wine  (as  well  as),  and  the 
oil"  of  life.  A  time  when  money  will  cut  a  very  meager 
figure  in  life,  will  neither  make  the  man  and  woman, 
nor  govern  their  selections  and  point  of  view,  but 
when  all  governed  by  Equity — level  scales — life  will 
then  be  to  live  and  let  live,  to  give  as  well  as  receive. 
A  current  and  counter-current  in  which  neither  dom- 
inates. 

That  such  a  state  can  never  be  reached  as  pres- 

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ently  constituted  we  must  all  admit,  but  the  sugges- 
tion we  offer  is  that  the  elements  are  at  work  on  us 
even  now  regulating  and  balancing  all  the  weights 
and  measures  of  our  life. 

These  suggestions — an  inductive  Philosophy  of 
the  Kock  of  silver  and  the  Rock  of  gold  are  offered 
for  analysis,  trusting  they  may  be  tested  by  a  posit- 
ing as  well  as  a  negating  process,  however,  in  order 
to  reach  the  Truth;  and  the  hypothesis  of  the  study 
would  be.  If,  as  is  the  hydrogen  and  silver  atom  of 
life  so  is  the  liberal  individual,  political  party.  Na- 
tion and  Hemisphere,  and  if,  as  is  the  oxygen  and 
gold  atom  of  life  so  is  the  conservative  individual, 
political  party.  Nation  and  Hemisphere,  and  we  find 
them  all  in  travail  and  out  of  tune  in  an  effort  to 
reach  the  even  balance.  Inasmuch  as  level  scales 
or  Bi-Metallism  means  by  every  Science,  Truth  or 
Creation,  may  we  not  expect  to  reach  a  New  Era  of 
life  towards  the  end  of  the  Century — ^towards  the 
Tri-Millenial?  And  if  visionary,  why  do  the  Na- 
tions and  political  parties  and  the  people  and  the 
Churches  strive  for  such  a  vain  and  visionary  thing? 

If  gold  alone  or  gravity,  without  regard  to  the 
giving  half  of  life,  is  to  be  the  only  Truth,  he  must 
be  a  dull  man  who  cannot  realize  labor,  when  thor- 
oughly organized,  would  simply  swallow  up  and  ab- 
sorb Monopoly  (The  earth  swallowing  the  sea  elec- 
trically speaking),  since  Militia  would  not  be  likely 
then  to  protect  their  enemy  in  life.  In  truth  gold  as 
the  only  sound  and  Truth  on  this  side  would  be  in 
the  same  state  of  "splendid  isolation"  their  mineral 
and  conservative  affinity  England  finds  herself  on  the 

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other  Hemisphere.  The  isolation  of  absorbent  greed 
and  selfishness.  An  isolation  far  more  complete 
when  the  colonies  accept  the  challenge  and  proceed 
to  protect  themselves  against  the  perpetual  filch  by 
repudiating  a  standard  of  value  and  an  Equity  that 
is  all  on  one  side  of  the  scale,  dictating  the  price  each 
way. 

Gold  either  as  an  atom,  an  individual,  a  political 
party  or  a  Nation,  has  never  had  very  much  of  a  heart 
or  soul  and  the  little  cold  and  sluggish  heart  it  has 
ever  had  throbbed  ever  for  itself  alone,  ever  receiv- 
ing much,  giving  little  in  return. 

English  law  and  Justice  and  Equity!  Think  of 
it.  A  law  leaving  the  estate  to  the  older  son  while 
the  family  have  to  whistle  and  grovel  for  him.  How 
Equitable  and  how  Just  do  we  behold  it!  And  are 
Conservative  political  parties  not  all  alike?  "Hating 
to  be  reformed  when  thou  sawest  a  thief  thou  con- 
sentest  unto  him.''  Do  they  not  detest  a  change  or 
advance?  Is  their  idea  of  life  not  absorption,  run- 
ning off  with  the  lion's  share,  coining  a  law  to  pro- 
tect themselves,  coining  a  metal  that  is  their  own 
receptive  graven  image?  And  do  they  expect  the 
silver  half  of  life  to  worship  at  their  shrine  forever? 
Let  the  conservative  of  life  mark  his  brother  now  in 
every  corner  of  the  earth  and  methinks  he  will  find 
an  atom  as  indifferent  and  unbending  and  refractory 
to  his  golden  sorcery  as  ever  were  the  other  side. 

When  all  the  princes  then  of  darkness  boast  their 
gold,  their  graven  image  and  the  properties  of  night 
as  Truth,  why  should  the  princes  of  the  morning 

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blush  to  own  the  bright  and  morning  star  while  rec- 
ognizing Truth  as  resting  in  the  wall  between? 

This  with  reference  to  the  photogenic  and  lumin- 
ous matter  of  the  human  brain.  The  active  brain 
being  phospherous,  hydrogenic  or  the  wine  of  life 
presumably.  The  passive  brain  being  oxygenic  in 
its  density  or  the  oil  of  life.  And  why  agitate  if 
gold  is  food  for  silver?  you  ask.  As  the  wheat  in  soul 
and  mineral  tone  is  gold  or  oxygenic  its  body,  the 
straw,  is  composed  of  silver's  hydrogen  of  heat;  and 
while  gold  as  now  coined  is  feeding  its  opposite  of 
silver,  destroying  the  conservative  soul  or  vital  tone, 
it  is  feeding  his  hydrogenic  body. 

On  the  silver  side  it  is  the  reverse  process  merely, 
the  oats  and  barley  of  life  having  for  soul  or  vital 
tone  the  silver  properties  have  for  body  the  oxygen 
or  gold  properties.  Gold  in  its  process  of  being 
coined,  therefore,  feeds  all  silver  life  but  is  poison 
to  all  negative  atoms  and  it  is  only  a  question  of  time 
when  the  conservative  individual  will  fear  his  very 
shadow  and  the  liberal  man's  body — the  Cities  of  life 
— must  wane  in  favor  of  his  brain  or  soul  or  vital 
tone,  suggesting  there  will  be  little  of  any  peace  or 
Confidence  now  on  either  of  the  Hemispheres  until 
Bi-Metallism  and  the  even  balance  in  the  division  of 
territory  has  been  reached.  And  does  any  one  im- 
agine the  level  scales  can  be  reached  without  Eng- 
land's having  to  disgorge  some  of  the  territory  she 
has  absorbed?  And  does  any  one  imagine  the  level 
scales  can  be  reached  without  the  Cities  of  life  hav- 
ing their  walls  broken  down  and  their  population 
redistributed  and  rearranged?     Or  that  the  even 

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balanced  individual  would  not  be  the  consummation 
of  Old  Testament  "folk  lore/'  New  Testament  "po- 
etry" and  "allegory"  and  "song"?  An  evolution  of 
the  body  as  well  as  of  the  spiritual,  Electrical  or 
Psychical  soul?  Ask  a  Tesla,  an  Edison  or  any  stu- 
dent of  Electrical  Philosophy  or  Psychology.  Gold 
alone,  without  a  silver  half  to  draw  upon  will  fade 
and  wither  and  will  never  yield  the  fruit  of  life,  will 
blight  and  droop  and  die,  but  gold  and  silver  side  by 
side,  true  counterparts,  would  reach  the  Truth  of 
life,  and  feeding  and  illuminating  one  the  other  like 
a  Turner's  brilliant  Bi-Metallic  harmony  of  color 
(hissed  and  hooted  at  first  by  passive  artists  of 
course)  they  would  live  and  never  die. 

And  does  any  one  imagine  it  would  be  an  easy 
matter  for  England  to  conquer  her  body  and  yield 
up  any  of  her  territory  and  offspring?  Or  for  Cities 
to  yield  up  their  inhabitants  or  for  individuals  to 
yield  up  any  of  their  offspring  in  conquering  their 
body?  And  does  contraction  and  level  scales  not 
mean  a  yielding  and  giving  on  the  receptive  side  with 
the  reverse  holding  on  the  other  side?  And  yet  it 
must  be  evident  we  never  can  be  free  until  we  reach 
this  level  balance  where  Truth  resides,  until  as  a 
great  Terrestrial  people  by  adopting  Bi-Metallism, 
we  cast  the  golden  calf  into  the  fire.  As  evident  as 
it  must  be  to  any  one  who  will  stop  to  consider  that 
boasting  "gold  as  the  only  sound"  is  not  only  the 
worst  form  of  anarchy — is  not  only  being  governed 
by  greedy,  receptive,  selfish  and  one-sided  Nature, 
but  is  far  more  to  be  dreaded  in  its  sorcery  and' 
quiet,  insidious  stealth  than  a  party  seeking  equity 

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and  level  scales.  And  while  the  best  element  in  each 
party  recognize  Bi-Metallism  as  Justice,  each  party 
must  beware  of  those  who  boast  their  "gold  as  the 
only  sound,"  since  it  is  the  same  Tory  Benedict  Ar- 
nold of  old  as  Altgeld  suggests.  The  same  conser- 
vative hiss  that  greeted  Washington  when  march- 
ing through  the  Eastern  streets. 

As  another  demonstration  there  are  two  of  us  and 
diametrically  opposite,  yet  feeding  each  other,  take 
a  thermometer  of  mercury  or  spirit  and  take  a  ther- 
mometer of  chlorine  of  gold  or  highly  refined  oil, 
place  them  side  by  side  and  it  will  convince  any 
doubting  Thomas  that  what  is  food  for  one  is  poison 
for  another  in  one  sense  as  that  one  feeds  and 
strengthens  the  other.  It  will  also  convince  any 
doubting  Thomas  gold  or  the  oil  of  life  instead  of 
feeding  density  is  poison  to  the  Conservative  and 
strength  to  the  mercury  of  life.  So  that  Bryan  is 
really  the  Moses  of  life  to  Conservatives;  and  the  re- 
verse must  hold  gold  has  been  and  is  going  to  be  the 
prodigals  salvation,  for  its  brazen  attitude  has  cre- 
ated in  him  revolt,  and  when  the  liberal  half  of  life 
cease  to  be  liberal  and  ductile  the  receptive  half 
ceasing  to  receive,  the  current  is  reversed  and  a  bat- 
tle of  the  elements  begins,  a  battle  that  will  result  as 
any  student  may  note  in  the  liberal  Hemisphere  be- 
coming one  Bi-Metallic  whole — breaking  their  bonds 
asunder  and  casting  away  from  them  the  yoke  be- 
gotten of  sorcery  and  selfishness.  And  is  this  era 
and  these  agitations  on  two  Hemispheres  the  work 
only  of  a  few  demagogues?  Mere  coincidence — mere 
chance?     Guided  by  gold  as  the  only  *sound,"  or  is 

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the  era  and  these  agitations  being  governed  by  the 
Centrifugal  Power,  the  Nitrogen  of  life,  the  two- 
edged  sword  that  levels  and  adjusts  all  balances? 
The  Destiny  of  our  Nation! — And  will  a  doctrine  of 
Christian  Sociology  of  level  scales,  and  equity  be 
agreeable  to  the  conservative  and  "sound''  and  in- 
fallible part  of  life  at  this  time?  Will  it  not  be  hissed 
and  rejected  as  usual  and  denounced  because,  for- 
sooth, it  will  not  longer  worship  at  the  golden  shrine? 

If  Christ  should  come  and  be  manifest  upon  the 
earth  again  would  this  octopus  of  greedy  monopoly 
that  has  the  Nations  by  the  throat  not  denounce  Him 
as  an  "Anarchist,"  a  "Repudiator,"  a  "Reprobate"? 
Would  the  "enlightened"  half  of  the  earth,  domi- 
nated by  their  gold  as  the  only  sound,  not  cast  Him 
into  jail,  spit  upon  Him,  yes,  and  even  crucify  Him? 
Is  the  man  who  dares  to  range  against  this  greedy 
and  absorbent  pig  of  life  not  denounced  as  "danger- 
ous," "demagogue,"  Anarchist  and  all  the  other  ad- 
jectives at  their  command?  And  do  they  imagine 
they  are  not  "creating  all  the  feeling"  by  striking 
with  a  tongue  full  of  venom  and  from  clusters  "bit- 
ter as  gall"?  That  the  Military  powers  of  Europe 
and  the  great  young  West  and  South  will  repudiate 
this  ridiculous  conservative  pose  must  be  evident  to 
the  liberal  half  of  life  at  least. 

And  as  the  greatest  of  Diplomats  would  have  the 
assistance  of  her  maneuvering  peace,  peace,  and  arbi- 
tration and  diplomatic  son  among  the  Nations,  as 
Spain  would  have  the  assistance  of  Rome,  as  Japan 
would  have  the  assistance  of  all  the  other  golden  and 
"enlightened"  Negative  Nations  of  density,  does  any 


one  imagine  the  volatile  and  demagogic  France,  the 
emotional  Slav  of  Silver  Russia  and  by  no  means 
least  the  demagogic  Emperor  of  Prussias  hydro- 
genic  silver  blue,  w^ould  not  be  found  ranging  on  the 
other*  side,  as  some  of  them  have  ever  done?  That 
it  will  not  be  as  Natural  for  a  liberal  Nation  to  line 
up  with  a  liberal  Nation  in  such  a  battle  of  the  Ele- 
ments? 

And  would  the  tender  mother  in  individual  life 
not  detest  her  husband  and  cling  to  her  own  degree 
in  the  body  of  the  son  she  bore?  Will  such  a  battle 
of  the  Elements  not  disrupt  every  individual  family 
government  as  well  as  National  government? 

And  did  language  and  creed  count  for  anything 
in  Canada  lately  when  it  was  a  question  of  Justice? 
Does  Justice  rest  with  only  one  side — with  only  one 
language  and  creed,  and  will  it  count  in  a  battle  of 
the  Elements  of  Silver  versus  the  Elements  of  Gold? 
Wait  and  see,  and  mark  if  it  will  not  extend  to  every 
form  of  life.  When  man  violates  a  Natural  law  the 
Physician  is  not  a  prophet  who  may  diagnose  the 
case,  and  one  does  not  require  to  be  a  Prophet  to 
diagnose  the  result  of  this  violation  of  a  Terrestrial 
Law. 


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